Mrs. Augusta Daily, an octogenarian, recalling Mother Maddalena’s first years in Omaha, said: “What impressed me most about Mother Maddalena was her great sincerity, her great love and sympathy for the poor, her love of silence and of recollection. Her eyes were always cast down. The religious habit she wore when coming to Omaha was very shabby. She could be found begging for the poor and for the Poor Clares. She would always ask me for the names of poor families and, not being cloistered then, she would visit them. In her visits to homes she would inquire very seriously about the regularity of the men of the family in attending to their religious duties. In visiting, the Servant of God would stay but a short while. She always had a rosary in her hand, and after a short visit she would say: ‘Well, we have to go to work in the convent.’