On May 8, 1884, Father Bernardine, the Minister General of the Franciscans who was also the spiritual director of Mother Maddalena, wrote to her:
Be assured, both you and Constance, that I greatly love you as my most cherished daughters in Jesus Christ and in St. Francis, that I bless God and give thanks to Him for you, and that I bless with you all your daughters and Sisters, American and French, and the new foundation at New Orleans.