(CNN) — An American health care pioneer will receive the Roman Catholic Church’s highest honor this weekend. On Sunday, Mother Marianne Cope — along with another North American, Kateri Tekakwitha — ...

The remains of St. Marianne Cope, who cared for thousands of Hansen’s disease patients on Molokai, will return to Hawaii, her religious order announced Thursday. Sister Margaret Antone Milho, a ...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:53:41 GMT — Upon arrival at the Oahu Branch Hospital for people with leprosy Mother Marianne Cope witnessed the worst of humanity. The 19th century Hawaiian government had sent men ...

Syracuse, NY -- In 1902, Mother Marianne Cope wrote a letter from Kalaupapa, on Molokai in Hawaii, to her nephew, in which she mentioned her upcoming 64th birthday and her life as a sister of St.

Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:39:01 GMT — T he 4 o' clock mass at Saint Joseph and Saint Patrick Church in Utica was different today, as parishioners went out to honor one of their own, Saint Marianne Cope.

When he was commissioned to create a mural portraying St. Marianne Cope, Maui artist Philip Sabado remembered a photo captioned “Sunday morning in Kalaupapa” in a book he had found decades earlier in ...

Franciscan Sister Alicia Damien Lau has served the lepers of Molokai on and off, beginning more than 50 years ago. Above, St. Damien. Below, Sister Alicia with a painting of St. Marianne and Bishop ...

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 was heralded as “Landing of ...

Proclaiming seven new saints -- including St. Kateri Tekakwitha and St. Marianne Cope from North America -- Pope Benedict XVI said they are examples to the world of total dedication to Christ and ...

SYRACUSE — A garden in Syracuse will be dedicated to a Catholic saint with Utica roots next week. The new garden, located at 601 N. Townsend St., will be unveiled Monday and dedicated to Saint ...