Mother Mary Francis, one of Mother Maddalena’s first spiritual daughters, reminisced about Mother Maddalena’s devotion to Saint Joseph: 
“In 1881 or 1882 the bills were all paid by John Creighton.  Mother always told St. Joseph must pay the bills.  On the feast of St. Joseph Mr. Creighton appeared with the bills receipted and paid.  Mother always placed the bills at the statue of St. Joseph.  Often people, Catholics and Protestants, came asking for prayer and the people would attribute the favors to her.  I often heard her say that people who had operations, law-suits, were doing better because of the prayers of the community.  She often said she didn’t do it, but the prayers of the Community.