Mother Maddalena and Mother Constance spent a day in Assisi, on the feast of the Assumption. We entered the monastery of St. Clare, where the good Reverend Mother Abbess and the dear Sisters were eager to have us with them. Since the Angelus bell rang as we entered, Mother Abbess said to us: ‘Sisters, hear the bells? It is a good sign for you, they ring for the feast.’ The good Mother was very glad at the coincidence. These and other good words spoken to us by one who is considered a saint, by the one who is the direct successor to our glorious Mother St. Clare and in the same Monastery where St. Clare’s body is kept, gave us great consolation and encouraged us wonderfully. This venerated Mother, having closed the cloister door, accompanied us to the choir, where we united with them in the recitation of the divine office of Matins. On August 15, we took our places in the choir and heard Mass. When the time for Holy Communion came, we went into the little side chapel. The grate (at which Holy Communion is received) is small. In this same little chapel there is kept with great veneration the same crucifix that spoke to our holy Father St. Francis. The good Mother had the kindness to open its doors and to pull the curtain that covers it, to let us contemplate it. This crucifix is the one which was at San Damiano when St. Francis repaired the church and the small monastery and where he said, ‘Women of holy life will come to live here,’ as is reported in his life.