The father of the future Mother Maddalena recorded in the Bentivoglio family album the birth and baptism of his new daughter. He recorded the details with military precision: Three quarters of an hour before midday of July 29, 1834, there was born Anna Maria, Marta, Barbara, Filomena; she was held at the Sacred Font by His Reverend Excellency, Monsignor Piccolomini, and by the daughter Paola, on the 30th of the aforenamed July, in the Church of San Giacomo on the Corso in Rome.