Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23. LEFT: Robert Louis Stevenson in 1893, by Henry Walter Barnett ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the New York convent where she first worked and worshipped, Blessed Marianne Cope's photographs and personal items document her journey from St. Francis Sister to ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Saint Marianne Cope's remains returned to Hawaii, and here to talk about the momentous occasion are Bishop Larry Silva of the Honolulu Catholic Church and Sister Roberta ...

The nuns of my boyhood in the 1940s wore undertaker-black habits. While invaluable to me, they never struck me as colorful women. So I found myself immediately drawn to Marianne Cope. Sister Marianne ...

In 1888, a Franciscan nun named Marianne Cope arrived on Molokai to open a home for women and girls living in the island’s leper colony. Known as “Mother Marianne”, she changed life on Molokai by ...

This is the statement Bishop James Moynihan will read at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy, today. I am hungry for the work. ... I am not afraid of any disease. It will be my greatest delight to ...

When he was commissioned to create a mural portraying St. Marianne Cope, Maui artist Philip Sabado remembered a photo captioned “Sunday morning in Kalaupapa” in a book he had found decades earlier in ...

Syracuse, NY - When Mother Marianne and six other Franciscans arrived in Honolulu on Nov.8, 1883, they lost no time cleaning up the hospital where patients with leprosy were treated. They responded ...

U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-Onondaga Hill, U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, and two representatives from Hawaii introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives honoring Saint Marianne ...

On Nov. 8 in 1883, Saint Marianne Cope arrived in Hawaii to take care of people with Hansen’s disease — more commonly known as leprosy — at Kalaupapa on Moloka’i. The day was heralded as “Landing of ...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:22:50 GMT — A pilgrim is not a tourist. A pilgrim is on a religious experience looking to draw closer to God. That's how Bishop Robert Cunningham described the upcoming journey to ...