–“ One Sister reported that John Creighton, on one occasion when he came to the monastery instinctively and spontaneously as a little child knelt down in [Mother Maddalena's] presence to ask her: ‘Mother, bless me!”  When to Mother Maddalena’s embarrassment and confusion he persisted in remaining on his knees, after she had protested that she could impart a blessing to any person, Mother Maddalena to find an escape yielded to his insistence with some nervousness and with the words: ‘God bless you! God bless you!’”                            - Father Walter Casper, S.J.