Dean Cronin's direction, that the young Bridget McCrory began to receive her calling to religious life.

She found herself attracted to the life of the Sisters who came begging alms for the aged and infirm men and women in their care.

Unable to effect any necessary changes in her present situation, McCrory sought advice and counsel from Cardinal Patrick Hayes, the Archbishop of New York.

The cardinal encouraged her in her work and suggested that she expand her ministry to include the aged throughout the New York City area.

The Commissary Provincial, the Very Reverend Dionysius Flanagan, OCarm, knew Mother Angeline as a Little Sister of the Poor when she was the superior of Our Lady's Home in the Bronx.

McCrory died on January 21, 1984,[5] her 91st birthday, at the St. Teresa Motherhouse at Avila-On Hudson in Germantown, New York, and interred in the congregation's cemetery.

In 1989, her Cause for Beatification and Canonization was introduced in the Diocese of Albany, with the approval of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and the case has now been referred to Rome.

[7] On 28 June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree formally acknowledging that McCrory had led a life of "heroic virtue".

The alleged miracle involves a family in the Diocese of Metuchen who prayed to McCrory to intercede with God after their unborn child was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality.