When Mother Maddalena was making the Poor Clare foundation in New Orleans, they were given hospitality by the Benedictine Sisters at Holy Trinity Church, on Dauphine Street. These nuns were very devoted to the Poor Clares and, though themselves poor, for fully three months shared with the latter all they had. When they left their kind hosts, Mother Maddalena wished to compensate them in some measure for their charity to the daughters of St. Francis, but these worthy daughters of the hospitable St. Benedict could not be persuaded to accept any material remuneration; in return they asked only for the alms of prayer. Finally, in order not to slight Mother Maddalena’s desire to express her gratitude in some tangible manner, it was agreed that each year, on Thanksgiving Day, the Poor Clares give the Benedictines a small token of gratitude, in imitation of the gift of a basket of fishes which St. Francis of old gave to the Benedictines out of gratitude for the little chapel of Our Lady of the Angels -- the so-called Portiuncula—which these had given to him. This beautiful custom between these two communities of nuns continues unto the present day: Every year, on Thanksgiving Day, the Poor Clares send a basket of food to the Benedictines. Furthermore, Mother Maddalena obtained for the chapel of those Benedictine Sisters the Indulgence of the Portiuncula.