The Poor Clares in Omaha received a letter, written on March 28, 1953, from an elderly lady, Claire Agnes McCluskey. She had been a young girl when Mother Maddalena and Mother Constance came to Omaha to establish the Poor Clare life in that city.  Their first, temporary convent was next door to Claire Agnes’ family.  She wrote:
[During our illness] Reverend Mother came and said the Rosary and asked mother to allow her to baptize the baby, so she would die without baptism. Mother cried and said yes. My younger sister and I were in bed with what was then called ‘Congestion of the lung’ and whooping cough. Two doctors had given no hope of our recovery and I could dimly remember Mother Mary Magdalen and Sister Mary Francis, standing at the bedside and baptizing Annie and I.  The next day we were recovering. The baby died and the nuns dressed her and placed a half-blown rose bud on each little foot. The nuns were like angels.