- On July 5, 1888, Bishop O’Connor, who believed the rumors and slanders against Mother Maddalena, placed the whole Poor Clare community under interdict, and they were no long able to receive Holy Communion. The whole Community was punished because they all voted not to receive the two Commissary Sisters back again, since they had witnessed the awful scene, and saw how Mother Maddalena had been treated. The bishop told the chaplain: Since the Sisters of the Poor Clares are now in open rebellion against ecclesiastical authority, I herewith command that you do not admit them to Holy Communion. Say Mass for them as usual, keep the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle, but do not give them Holy Communion.