- Mother Ludovica, of the Monastery of San Lorenzo, wrote of Mother Maddalena, who had lived in that monastery until her departure for America: I loved Sister Mary Maddalena for the rare virtues I discovered in her during the years I had the fortune to live with her. 1 saw nothing extraordinary in her, but I knew that her soul was dear to God—replete with virtue. She was fond of solitude, was humble, careful, and zealous for the exercises of the choir, from which she was obliged to be absent sometimes on account of her serious infirmities, infirmities that she endured with heroic patience and resignation. Her greatest delight was to kneel before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.