Two of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in ...

ROME >> Marianne Cope is now the patron saint of outcasts, being elevated to the Roman Catholic church's highest honor for her work on Oahu, Maui and Molokai’s remote Kalaupapa Peninsula, where ...

A German-American nun will become a saint Sunday, nearly a century after her death. Mother Marianne Cope is the second person to be honored in this way for caring for people in Hawaii with leprosy ...

Twenty-one years later, the woman the world now knows as Saint Marianne Cope left Syracuse to work as a missionary among the lepers in Hawaii. Even during her lifetime, many considered her a saint ...

Syracuse, N.Y. (RNS) The remains of St. Marianne Cope, one of 11 American Catholic saints, will be returned to Hawaii, where the Franciscan sister ministered among patients with leprosy for 35 years.

The U.S. bishops approved adding optional memorials for Blessed Pope John Paul II and Blessed Marianne Cope to the U.S. Proper of Saints calendar. The memorials were discussed and approved on Nov ...

An American health care pioneer on Sunday received the Roman Catholic Church’s highest honor. Mother Marianne Cope – along with another North American, Kateri Tekakwitha – became a saint, a ...

The remains of St. Marianne will be moved out of Central New York when a group of local nuns move from Syracuse to the suburbs next year.

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… ...

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.

An American health care pioneer on Sunday received the Roman Catholic Church’s highest honor. Mother Marianne Cope – along with another North American, Kateri Tekakwitha – became a saint, a ...