St. Damien and St. Marianne's legacies inspire hope on the Tree of Hope Tour, bringing relics and stories of compassion to ...

At the traditional St. Joseph's Day dinner are from the left, Justice Orlando (Lindy) Marrazzo Jr., Joseph Romagnolo, Rev. Michael Martine, Dr. Marianne LaBarbera, Rev. Louis Jerome ...

Meli Watanuki talks about praying to the Catholic Saints, Father Damien and Mother Marianne, while sitting on her porch on July 19, in Kalaupapa. In the 1800s, the peninsula was a settlement for ...

The group also prayed at the grave of Saint Marianne. Marianne Cope, who was born in Germany, died at Kalaupapa in 1918 of natural causes and was canonized in 2012.

Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii's leprosy patients.

FIRST PHOTO: Kneeling, artist Dale Zarrella places flowers at the bottom of the Saint Marianne Cope sculpture Sunday afternoon. He hopes his art inspires nurses. “They are the real heroes of our ...

Corona’s feast day is May 14. Other saints also are believed to offer help against disease. St. Marianne Cope (1838-1918) was a Franciscan who worked with leprosy patients in Hawaii.

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 wa… ...

Effective July 1, St. Cecilia's of Solvay and Our Lady of Peace of Lakeland merged their parishes into one and named it St. Marianne Cope Parish. One month after the merger, church officials ...

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.

Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23.

The new garden, located at 601 N. Townsend St., will be unveiled Monday and dedicated to Saint Marianne Cope by the Saint Marianne Cope Shrine and Museum. It's next door to St. Joseph’s Hospital ...