Marianne Cope
✓ Source-basedrisingGerman-American Franciscan Sister, missionary and saint (1838-1918)
Marianne Cope, OSF, also known as Marianne of Molokaʻi, was a German-born American member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse. She was founding director of St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first general hospitals in the country.
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Historic Old St. John's Church, Utica New York
The Sisters of St. Francis, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital
Walter Murray Gibson with the Sisters of St. Francis and daughters of Hansen's disease patients, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital
Mother Marianne Cope and Sister Leopoldina Burns beside the funeral bier of Father Damien
Mother Marianne Cope (in the wheelchair) only a few days before she died
Scales used by Mother Marianne Cope and the Sisters to measure medicine, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, in the late 1880s
Mother Marianne Cope statue dedicated January 23, 2010, in HonoluluAwards 2
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Marianne Cope, OSF, also known as Marianne of Molokaʻi, was a German-born American member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse. She was founding director of St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first general hospitals in the country. In 1883, she led a group of six other sisters to the Kingdom of Hawaii to care for lepers in Molokaʻi and aid in developing the kingdom's medical infrastructure. Despite direct contact with patients over many years, Cope did not contract the disease. In 2005, she was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI. She was canonized in 2012.
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