In Omaha, Mother Maddalena became friends with John Creighton.  He was impressed with Mother Maddalena’s holiness and procured a site for the convent and made the deed over to the Poor Clares. The site consisted of six and a half acres of land on which Mother Maddalena would build her first monastery in Omaha.    On March 1, 1879, she wrote to her sister:   Last Monday I went with Constance to view the lot. Up there was quiet, a silence entirely delicious; but inwardly I felt—I do not know what. Enough, let us leave it to God. Was it a presentiment that hill would be her Calvary?  Later events in 1888 proved this true.