Mother Mary Constance was named after a virgin-martyr venerated in Rome. She was martyred with Saint Felix at the time of the Emperor Nero. The relics are kept at Nocera, between Naples and Salerno. Their feast is kept on September 19th. Mother Mary Constance is also named after a nun in the monastery of San Lorenzo, where Mother Constance first entered. Of this Sister Constance from previous centuries, it is said: Sister Constance of Rome was favored with the gift of miracles even in her childhood. There was a poor blind girl of the age of four. Constance felt deeply moved with compassion for her. She invited the child to her home and in the evening at the ringing of the Angelus, she placed the child against a window from which the statue of the Blessed Virgin could be seen above the door of the church of Aracoeli. At the same time, she bathed the eyes of the child with holy water and recited one Our Father and Hail Mary. On the third evening the child was found to be perfectly healed. Constance was then eleven years old. Shortly after, she entered the Monastery of Poor Clares at San Lorenzo, where she made wonderful advance in every virtue; yet the chief feature always remained that extraordinary confidence in God by which she performed the most marvelous things.