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Posted: Oct 03 2012 at 1:38am \| IP Logged

I am not sure where I have been since I had never heard of this woman before but maybe some of you are in the same boat. Sr. Marianne Cope will be cannonized Oct. 12, 2012. Here is more info. Very interesting!

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Posted: Oct 03 2012 at 5:13am \| IP Logged

This is wonderful- thanks for posting! I have long admired Mother Marianne's work in Hawaii.

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Posted: Oct 03 2012 at 6:21am \| IP Logged

THANK YOU for sharing this!!! My kids just got donea study on Fr. Damien, and this will fit in so nicely.

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Posted: Oct 03 2012 at 10:27am \| IP Logged

Very excited about the upcoming canonization here. Blessed Kateri is getting more of the "publicity" so it's nice you mentioned it. I usually start an October canonization thread but didn't this year.

Here are some resources posted in past threads:

JennGM wrote:

I love anything by Eva K. Betz, and she has three books regarding the holy workers at Molokai:

Yankee at Molokai: Brother Ira Dutton
The Quiet Flame: Mother Marianee Cope (soon to be canonized in October)
Knight of Molokai: Father Damien

MaryM wrote:

When my daughter did a history fair project several years ago on the history of nuns in nursing and the medical fields, she covered Bl. Marianne Cope (soon to be Hawaii's next saint!) and the Robert Louis Stevenson info came up then.

MaryM wrote:

Speaking of Robert Louis Stevenson, he also wrote this poem about Bl. Marianne Cope, who also served the Hansen's Disease patients in Hawaii, and assumed charge of Father Damien�s Boys� Home after his death.

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Reverend Sister Marianne
Matron of the Bishop Home, Kalaupapa

To see the infinite pity of this place,

The mangled limb, the devastated face,

The innocent sufferers smiling at the rod,

A fool were tempted to deny his God.

He sees, and shrinks; but if he look again,

Lo, beauty springing from the breast of pain!�

He marks the sisters on the painful shores,

And even a fool is silent and adores.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Kalawao, May 22, 1889

MaryM wrote:

I haven't read any, but this site has a large listing of
Marianne Cope books.

She is included on the lists for the Saints associated with each US State - Hawaii and New York

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