John Creighton of Omaha, was a great benefactor of the Poor Clares. A grandniece of his, Mrs. Clare C. Daugherty, has stated of Mother Maddalena: Count Creighton, a man of the world, high-spirited and just the opposite in temperament to the character of Mother Maddalena, was one of her most steadfast friends and benefactors. It was only the sanctity and humility of a person like Mother Maddalena that could attract a person such as Count Creighton was. Though the count could not fully understand such humility as evinced by the Servant of God, he admired it, coupled with her great confidence in God. He was wont to say: ‘She stands high with God.’