 While there, she did home nursing, which brought her into contact with the Catholic faith of many of the poor for whom she cared.She developed an interest in that faith while deep prayer and personal study led her down the path of conversion, and on 15 August 1902 – the Feast of the Assumption – she received conditional baptism from a Jesuit priest, Johann Georg Hagen, in the chapel of the Georgetown Visitation Monastery in Washington, D.C. Hagen also became her spiritual director.As she reflected on that moment, she wrote