-  Mother Maddalena left her dear sister, Mother Mary Constance, in Omaha when she  went to make the foundation in Evansville.  Mother Constance fell gravely ill at the beginning of 1902.   Sister Mary Agnes of Omaha, wrote:
On the evening of Monday, January 27, our dear Mother had a chill and passed a wearisome night with incessant coughing and, for the first time, could not receive Holy Communion in the morning.  The doctor was called early and said Mother had pneumonia. He again said if we worked hard, she had a good chance for life but that a hemorrhage of the lungs was necessary and, it this did not come, she would smother in about ten hours.  The sisters faithfully did everything which was prescribed and, until an hour before her death, expected her to recover.