 Ill health forced him to stop his work and return to his homeland and he left on 14 January 1880 to arrive in Rome on 1 April.It was upon his return that his nephew Nicolò La Lomia informed him that his mother had died on 15 March 1879.He returned to his homeland in 1880 and established the convent for the order at Canicattì in the Madonna della Rocca church.