Five days preceding their departure from their convent home in Italy to leave for America, Maddalena wrote to Madame Agata, her sister: Perhaps the departure will take place in a week. Oh! Holy Will of God, you are my love! What an upheaval I feel within myself! Pray that our Lord will be glorified and that I will never have one thought against His will; that is to say, I must suffer for the sacrifice, but I must do it generously and entirely.