It is a consolation to us that a foundation here in Saint Louis was desired by Mother Maddalena from the time shortly after she arrived in America. Father Kleber, her Vice-Postulator, recounts: [Father Gregory, the Franciscan Provincial] was harboring the hope of procuring for them the permission to make a foundation in St. Louis, where his Friars could take care of them. In a letter written at that time to Matilda, the Servant of God says, having given Father Gregory’s reasons in favor of St. Louis: He seems to be very decided. He is good and saintly, and we must do as he counsels us. Really, I should have been more glad to go to New Orleans, because the Bishop there is very good, and we should there certainly have help in every way. But God's will must always be done; He knows what is for our greatest good. The best is, not to have wishes, then all what comes is accepted well. [March 23, 1877] Although it was many years later, the foundation in Saint Louis was made in 1959, by Mother Maddalena’s last foundation of Evansville.