Jennie McGrath was a young girl when Mother Maddalena came to Cleveland to begin the Poor Clare life in that city. Jennie still recalled with much joy and reverence those visits in which she had been one of the participants. There was something especially about Mother Maddalena that kindly attracted her and her sister. On one visit, time slipped by so fast, that they did not notice that darkness was setting in. When therefore, Jennie’s older sister wanted to know the time from her watch, she could no longer discern the hands and numbers on the face of the watch, because of the darkness; yet so great was the poverty practiced in the convent - and this is what impressed the girls — that without necessity not even the most primitive light was kept burning. Though 52 years had elapsed since this incident, Jennie fondly recalled how simply Mother Maddalena took the watch into her hand and said, as she took the few steps toward the small room that was the chapel: We shall see by the sanctuary light. With this action she merely spontaneously translated into the physical order that which was her practice in affairs of the higher order, in which she had accustomed herself to see by the sanctuary light: the light of Christ’s presence.