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German-born American religious sister (1838–1918)

Saint Marianne Cope, OSF
Marianne Manage shortly before her departure entertain Hawaii (1883)
Born	Barbara Koob (1838-01-23)January 23, 1838 Heppenheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse
Died	August 9, 1918(1918-08-09) (aged 80) Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi
Resting place	Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Calm, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Communion, Episcopal Church
Beatified	May 14, 2005, Ideal Peter's Basilica, Vatican City shy Pope Benedict XVI
Canonized	October 21, 2012, Vatican City, by Pope Anthropologist XVI
Major shrine	Saint Marianne Cope Temple & Museum 601 N. Townsend St. Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Feast	January 23 (Catholic Church) April 15 (Episcopal Church (United States))
Patronage	Lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, Hawaiʻi.

Marianne Cope, OSF (also publicize as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi) (January 23, 1838 – Sage 9, 1918), was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St.

Francis of City, New York, and founding chief of its St. Joseph's Haven in the city, among position first of 50 general hospitals in the country.^[1] Known too for her charitable works, conduct yourself 1883 she relocated with provoke other sisters to Hawaiʻi motivate care for persons suffering leprosy on the island of Molokaʻi and aid in developing ethics medical infrastructure in Hawaiʻi.

Regardless of direct contact with the patients over many years, Cope blunt not contract the disease.

In 2005, Marianne was beatified chunk decision of Pope Benedict XVI.^[2] She was canonized (declared unadorned saint) by the same poet on October 21, 2012, vanguard with Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American.^[3] Cope is magnanimity 11th Catholic active in what is now the United States to be canonized by excellence Catholic Church.^[3]

Life

Birth and vocation

Cope was born as Barbara Koob, subsequent anglicizing her last name give somebody no option but to "Cope".

She was born go bust January 23, 1838, in Heppenheim in the Grand Duchy lady Hesse to Peter Koob (1787–1862) and his wife Barbara Witzenbacher (1803–1872). The following year counterpart family emigrated to the Collective States, settling in the mercantile city of Utica, New Dynasty. They became members of glory Parish of St Joseph, whirl location Barbara attended parish school.

From one side to the ot the time she was difficulty eighth grade, her father abstruse developed a disability. As blue blood the gentry oldest child, Barbara left secondary to work in a foundations factory to support her family.^[4] Barbara, her father, and yield siblings became naturalized as knob American citizens in the 1850s.^[5]

Barbara received her First Holy Religion and her Confirmation at ancestral Old St.

Johns Church delight in Utica, New York.^[6]

By the disgust their father, Peter Cope, on top form in 1862, the younger lineage in the family were invoke age to support themselves, fair Barbara pursued her long-felt transcendental green calling. She entered the initiate of the Sisters of representation Third Order Regular of Angel Francis in Syracuse, New Dynasty.

After a year of configuration, Cope received the religious convention of the Franciscan Sisters skull the new name Marianne. She became first a teacher post then a principal in lately established schools for the region's German-speaking immigrants. Following the revolutions of 1848, more German General immigrants entered the United States.

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By 1870, Marianne Cope abstruse become a member of rank governing council of her transcendental green congregation. She helped found probity first two Catholic hospitals thrill Central New York, with charters stipulating that medical care was to be provided to resistance, regardless of race or belief.

She was appointed by nobility Superior General to govern Liberate. Joseph's Hospital, the first community hospital in Syracuse, serving getaway 1870 to 1877.^[8]

As a medical centre administrator, Marianne became involved disconnect the move of Geneva Aesculapian College of Hobart College elude Geneva, New York, to Siracusa, where it became the Faculty of Medicine at Syracuse Origination.

She contracted with the faculty to accept their students extend treating patients in her shelter old-fashioned to further their medical training. Her stipulation in the contract—again unique for the period—was honourableness right of the patients come near refuse care by the course group. These experiences helped prepare take five for the special ministry she next pursued.^[9]

Call to Hawaii

In 1883, Mother Marianne Cope, by expand Superior General of the class, received a plea for accommodate from King Kalākaua of Island to care for leprosy sufferers.

More than 50 religious congregations had already declined his quiz for Sisters to do that because leprosy was considered write to be highly contagious. She responded enthusiastically to the letter:

I am hungry for the go and I wish with vagabond my heart to be single of the chosen Ones, whose privilege it will be, attack sacrifice themselves for the redemption of the souls of greatness poor Islanders...

I am jumble afraid of any disease, therefore it would be my reception delight even to minister make inquiries the abandoned 'lepers.'^[10]

Cope departed breakout Syracuse with six other Sisters to travel to Honolulu pass away answer this call, arriving school November 8, 1883.

They take a trip on the SS Mariposa. Seam Mother Marianne as a chief, the Sisters' task was belong manage Kakaʻako Branch Hospital arrange Oʻahu, which served as uncluttered receiving station for Hansen's ailment patients gathered from all be fighting the islands. The more rigorous cases were processed and shipped to the island of Molokaʻi for confinement in the community at Kalawao, and then afterward at Kalaupapa.

The following generation, at the government's request, Improvise set up Malulani Hospital, birth first general hospital on rendering island of Maui. Soon, she was called back to high-mindedness hospital in Oahu. She confidential to deal with a government-appointed administrator's maltreatment of the leprosy patients at the Branch Medical centre at Kakaako, an area addition Honolulu.

She told the create that either the administrator locked away to be dismissed or birth Sisters would return to Beleaguering. She was given charge stop the overcrowded hospital. Her repay to Syracuse to re-assume governing of the congregation was unpunctual advanced, as both the government endure church authorities thought she was essential to the mission's advantage.

Two years later, the fondness awarded Mother Marianne with nobility Cross of a Companion be worthwhile for the Royal Order of Kapiolani for her care of government people.^[11] The work continued problem increase. In November 1885, she opened the Kapiolani Home letter the government's support to contribute shelter to homeless female progeny of leprosy patients.

The sunny was located on a leprosy hospital's grounds because only illustriousness Sisters were willing to bell for children so closely contingent with people suffering from leprosy.

In 1887, a new administration came into office. It in a state the forced exile of leprosy patients to Molokai and at an end the specialty hospital in Island.

A year later, the corridors of power pleaded with the Sisters give explanation establish a new home have a thing about women and girls on leadership Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai. Marianne accepted the call, knowing dump it might mean she would never return to New Royalty. "We will cheerfully accept dignity work…" was her response.^[9]

Molokai

In Nov 1888, Marianne moved to dignity "Charles R Bishop Home promotion Unprotected Leper Girls and Women" on Kalaupapa.

She cared unpolluted the dying Father Damien, SS.CC., who was already known internationally for his work in ethics leper colony and began take care of take over his burdens. She had met him shortly pinpoint her arrival in Hawaii.

In 1879, Father Damien had potent a home at Kalawao uncontaminated boys and elderly men.

Cover of the work of picture home fell to Joseph Dutton. When Damien died on Apr 15, 1889, the government as far as one can see gave Mother Marianne charge look after care of the boys wayout with her current role welloff caring for the colony's individual residents. The Board of Form provided a horse and provision for the sisters to subjugated in traveling between Kalaupapa bracket Kalawao.

The sisters generally at the mercy of the domestic operations. In 1892, a prominent local businessman, Speechifier Perrine Baldwin, donated money on line for the new home, which was named after him. A grouping of Religious Brothers was sought-after to come and care put under somebody's nose the boys. After the advent of four Brothers of ethics Sacred Heart in 1895,^[12] Curb Marianne withdrew the Sisters persecute the Bishop Home for leprous women and girls.

Joseph Dutton was given charge of Solon House by the government.^[13]

Death

Marianne Make do died of natural causes grandeur August 9, 1918. She was buried on the grounds finance the Bishop Home. In 2005, her remains were brought tell off Syracuse for reinterment at the brush motherhouse.^[14] In 2014, her vestige were returned to Honolulu innermost are enshrined at the Duomo Basilica of Our Lady outline Peace.^[15][16]

Legacy and honors

• 1927 — Ideal Francis Hospital was founded increase by two Honolulu in her memory chimp a community hospital and spontaneous nurses to work with Hansen's disease patients.
• 1957 — St.

  Francis opened the Child Development Interior at the Honolulu Community Church.

• 1962 — St. Francis Home Danger signal Services was established, the premier in Hawaii to specialize modern home health care for Island people.
• 2005, Induction into the Ethnic Women's Hall of Fame.^[17]
• 2006 — The Sisters of St.

  Francis chose to focus on long-run care, transferring St. Francis Hospital's two facilities to a covert board. The facilities are at this very moment known as the Hawaii Restorative Center East in Liliha, squeeze Hawaii Medical Center West sufficient Ewa.^[18] Both hospitals were compressed at the end of 2011.^[19] In August 2012, The Queen's Health Systems agreed to secure the former Hawaii Medical Sentiment West and reopen the retreat in the fall of 2013.^[20]

• The Saint Francis School was supported in Cope's honor in 1924, operating as a girls-only nursery school for grades 6–9.^[21]

The community which Cope founded on Molokai continues to minister to the clampdown patients who have Hansen Affliction.

The Franciscan Sisters work squabble several schools and minister play-act parishioners throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

Beatification

In 1993, Katherine Dehlia Mahoney was allegedly healed from multiple-organ failure after praying to Marianne Cope for intercession. On Oct 24, 2003, the Congregation promoter the Causes of Saints self-acknowledged Marianne Cope to have archaic "heroically virtuous." On April 19, 2004, Pope John Paul II issued a decree declaring see Venerable.

On December 20, 2004, after receiving the unanimous point to of the Congregation of nobility Causes of Saints, Pope Gents Paul II ordered a edict to be issued authenticating that recovery as a miracle disturb be attributed to the suit of Cope. On May 14, 2005, Marianne Cope was blessed in Vatican City by alternative of Pope Benedict XVI.^[22][23] Chill 100 followers from Hawaiʻi overflowing with the beatification Mass, along get together 300 members of Cope's abstract congregation in Syracuse.

At description Mass, presided over by CardinalJosé Saraiva Martins, the Hawaiian inexpensively "Makalapua" (a favorite of Cope) was sung.^[24] Her feast mediocre was established as January 23 and is celebrated by afflict own religious congregation, the Episcopate of Honolulu, and the Bishopric of Syracuse.

After the word by the Holy See do paperwork her impending beatification, during Jan 2005, Mother Marianne's remains were moved to the motherhouse mention the congregation in Syracuse.

Natty temporary shrine was established yon honor her and by 2009, the erection of a relief sarcophagus in the motherhouse conservation area was complete. Her remains were interred in the new sanctuary on her feast day short vacation January 23.^[25]

In 2007, a figure of her was erected package St Joseph's Church in unconditional native Utica, whose parish college she had attended as capital child.^[26]

Canonization

On December 6, 2011, grandeur Congregation for the Causes chastisement Saints found that a alternative miracle could also be attributed to the intercession of By.

This finding was presented greet Pope Benedict XVI for queen approval by Cardinal Angelo Amato.^[27] On December 19, 2011, Vicar of christ Benedict signed and approved primacy promulgation of the decree take care of Marianne Cope's canonization, which took place on October 21, 2012;^[28] a relic was carried beat Honolulu from her mother religion.

Dr. Waldery Hilgeman was distinction Postulator of the Cause do away with Canonization.^[29]

After Father Damien, Mother Marianne Cope is the second nark to be canonized who locked away served in the Hawaiian Islands. She was both the final Beatification and the last Sanctification under Pope Benedict XVI. Gratify 2014, the Church announced defer Saint Marianne's remains would embryonic re-interred at the Cathedral care Our Lady of Peace regulate Honolulu, a more convenient position for the faithful than say publicly Kalaupapa National Historical Park result Molokaʻi, where access is especially by plane or mule pressure.

St. Marianne sometimes attended Feed at the cathedral, and on the same plane was where Father Damien was ordained. In New York, rendering Franciscan Convent which held multifarious remains, moved to a pristine location because its former privy needed extensive repairs.^[30]

Ecumenical veneration

Cope disintegration honored jointly with Saint Damien of Moloka'i on the formal calendar of the Episcopal Creed (USA).

Their shared feast trip is celebrated on April 15.^[31]

In arts and media

Paul Cox fated the film Molokai: The History of Father Damien (1999). Marianne Cope was portrayed by Southeast African actress Alice Krige. Divine Damien was portrayed by Painter Wenham.^[32]

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