Mother Mary Maddalena and Mother Mary Constance were in New York until July of 1876, so they might have heard the fiery Monsignor Edward McGlynn preaching at his St. Stephen’s parish in New York.  He said of St. Paul and St. Stephen:
Truth must prevail, it is powerful ; it has all the power of God; Saints have died for it ; and the very efforts to stifle it will but propagate it.
 Saul-Paul-Stephen:  The Saul of yesterday will become the Paul of tomorrow and the conversion of the Saul into the Paul will have been perhaps the result of the martyrdom of the Stephen stoned to death. It is no new thing for men oppressed to be in the front ranks of the defenders of the oppression.