On this day in 1896 …  “In 1896 Mother Magdalen petitioned the venerable Bishop of Indianapolis, whom she had known as Rector of the American College in Rome, to allow her to make a foundation at Evansville, Indiana. This was to be her last work.  Like St. Teresa, she had gone from city to city, laboring under great difficulties and tribulations, never thinking of herself, and enduring all things, provided houses could be established where a few holy souls should gather together for a life of prayer and intercession, praising God incessantly, and drawing down blessings upon mankind.”         - Gabriel Francis Powers, A Woman of the Bentivoglios