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  Mother Marianne Cope - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mother Marianne Cope, also known as Maria Anna Barbara Koob and Blessed Marianne of Molokai (January 23 1838 – August 9 1918), is a Franciscan nun of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.
Mother Marianne Cope was the first person beatified by Pope Benedict XVI and raised to the title of Blessed, awaiting canonization into sainthood.
The Blessed Mother was born in Heppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mother_Marianne_Cope   (446 words)

  
 WXIA-11alive.com - Print Article - Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mother Marianne was born Jan. 23, 1838, as Barbara Koob in Heppenheim, Germany, and moved to Utica, N.Y., in 1840.
Cope's work in Hawaii inspired Robert Louis Stevenson, author of "Treasure Island" and other classics, to write a poem in tribute to Mother Marianne, heralding the "beauty, springing from the breast of pain!" that her work evoked.
As part of the process, Mother Marianne's remains had to be exhumed and identified, and now her casket is in the convent's chapel until the sisters can erect a permanent shrine.
www.11alive.com /news/printarticle.aspx?storyid=60482   (775 words)

  
 Kalaupapa nun a step closer to sainthood - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Mother Marianne, a Roman Catholic nun who toiled for 30 years to improve the lives of Hansen's disease patients at Kalaupapa, Moloka'i, was cleared for beatification by the Vatican.
Mother Marianne was born Barbara Koob in Germany in 1838 and took the name Marianne in 1862 when she joined the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in New York.
Mother Marianne's cause has reported a miracle — the purported recovery of a girl who appeared to be near death until her family, friends and sisters of St. Francis prayed for the intercession of Mother Marianne.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Dec/21/ln/ln03p.html   (1506 words)

  
 Mother Marianne of Kalaupapa
With Mother Marianne as supervisor, their task was to manage Kaka`ako Branch Hospital on O`ahu, which served as a receiving station for Hansen’s disease patients gathered from all over the islands.
Mother Marianne expanded the efforts of the Sisters of St. Francis to include managing a hospital and school at Wailuku on Maui.
Mother Marianne’s example—her never-failing optimism, her serenity, her caring nature, and her considerable abilities—gave strength to the other sisters.
www.nps.gov /kala/docs/marianne.htm   (843 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Library
Mother Marianne Cope, raised in Central New York, rose from a factory worker to help found two of the first 50 hospitals in the United States, St. Elizabeth's in Utica and St. Joseph's in Syracuse.
Mother Marianne's efforts with regard to ensuring each individual's right to health care reached from the East Coast of the United States to what was at that time, the foreign kingdom of Hawaii.
Mother Marianne's innate sense of justice, her outstanding heroic virtues and her life of charity led to her beatification on May 14, 2005, at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
www.senecafallslibrary.org /news/091305.htm   (435 words)

  
 Profile in Faith - Blessed Mother Marianne Cope
Mother Marianne responded to the request with enthusiasm: "I am hungry for the work and I wish with all my heart to be one of the chosen ones, whose privilege it will be, to sacrifice themselves for the salvation of the souls of the poor islanders.
In 1888, the Hawaiian government asked Mother Marianne to supervise a new home for girls in Kalaupapa where the patients with the most severe cases of leprosy were sent to die.
Mother Marianne Cope was beatified on May 14, 2005 at a ceremony held at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
www.spiritualwoman.net /Profiles/Cope.html   (569 words)

  
 Blessed Mother Marianne Cope - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
Mother Marianne’s generosity and courage were celebrated at her May 14, 2005, beatification in Rome.
Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation.
Elected provincial in 1877, Mother Marianne was unanimously re-elected in 1881.
www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1123   (684 words)

  
 American Saints
Mother Marianne was 45 years old, been in the order 21 years and supervisor at St. Joseph Hospital in Syracuse when she accepted a post in the Hawaiian Mission.
Mother Marianne raised a weak hand, looked out over the grounds and gave her blessing to the facility.
Sister Marianne was beatified in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica on May 14, 2005.
www.allformary.org /AmericanSaints/cope.htm   (250 words)

  
 The Catholic Voice - an online publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland
Mother Marianne began a new ministry as a nurse-administrator in 1870 at a hospital in Syracuse, N.Y. During the six years she worked there she was often criticized for accepting alcoholics and other “outcasts” as patients when other facilities refused them
Mother Marianne and her crew revamped the facility and improved the patients’ living conditions and health care.
Mother Marianne became an example of never-failing optimism, serenity and trust in God that inspired hope among the Molokai residents and allayed the Sisters’ fear of catching leprosy.
www.catholicvoiceoakland.org /05-08-08/inthisissue18.htm   (1257 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Mother Marianne Cope, who garners just a fraction of the attention given the Belgian priest who died in 1889, is on a Vatican waiting list for a hearing on her canonization cause -- an inquiry that could lead to her designation as "venerable."
Mother Marianne and a layman known as Brother Joseph Dutton worked by Damien's side for a time and continued his work for decades after his death, but never achieved the same level of recognition for their work.
Mother Marianne came to Molokai in 1883 with six Franciscan sisters to care for those suffering the devastating effects of Hansen's disease.
starbulletin.com /2003/05/25/news/story5.html   (935 words)

  
 Diocese of Syracuse, NY - Catholic Sun Articles
Mother Marianne, whose cause for sainthood was started by the Sisters of St. Francis, was declared Venerable in April 2004 by Pope John Paul II and declared Blessed on Dec. 20, 2004.
Marianne’s monument, she said, “She is always going to be in our hearts, even if her remains go.” Kanani Peelua Negrillo, a resident of the island for all of her 66 years, said that she has always prayed to Mother Marianne for help.
Mother Marianne’s remains were received at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with a special blessing and welcome on Feb. 2, the Feast of the Presentation.
www.syracusediocese.org /NewsStories.asp?id=681   (3475 words)

  
 Mother Marianne Cope: A Blessed Among Lepers - July 2005 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
The story was about Mother Marianne Cope, a Sister of St. Francis from New York who devoted most of her adult life to caring for people with leprosy, quarantined on a tiny slip of land on the Hawaiian island of Molokai a half century earlier.
Mother Marianne was born Barbara Koob in the German grand duchy of Hesse Darmstadt on January 23, 1838.
Mother Marianne’s canonization cause officially started 23 years ago when Bishop John J. Scanlan established a diocesan commission to write a historical report on her life for submission to the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Jul2005/Feature2.asp   (3094 words)

  
 uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Those dedicated to pushing forward the sainthood cause for Mother Marianne gathered with Franciscan sisters from Syracuse and Utica Thursday to hear Frank Tomaino, a local historian, Sister Grace Anne Dillenschneider and Mary Cole, a member of the Mother Marianne Prayer Group, introduce the relics and share history.
Mother Marianne was raised in Utica and joined the Third Order of Franciscan Sisters in Syracuse at age 24.
Relics, including Mother Marianne's profession cross, a piece of her habit and fragments of her rosary were on display.
www.uticaod.com /archive/2005/04/29/news/26631.html   (556 words)

  
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The decision to exhume the body of the heroic nun who served the leprosy patients of Kalaupapa from 1888 to 1918 was prompted by the rapid progress of the effort to canonize her.
Mother Marianne was declared “venerable” by Pope John Paul II in April and could be beatified next year if a miracle attributed to her intervention is approved by Rome, which could happen as soon as December.
The human connection to Mother Marianne at Kalaupapa is also tenuous as the patient population and number of sisters at the settlement dwindle.
www.mauinews.com /story.aspx?id=2427   (1003 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2005/05/15/
Cope's decision to serve leprosy victims in Hawaii "was a wonderful work of divine grace," said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who presided at the beatification celebration in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City yesterday.
Mother Marianne Cope was born Jan. 23, 1838, in Germany to Peter and Barbara Koob, who immigrated to the United States when she was 1 year old.
Cope died Aug. 9, 1918, at 80 years of age and was buried on the grounds of the Bishop Home for girls.
starbulletin.com /2005/05/15/news/story3.html   (1321 words)

  
 Kalaupapa National Historical Park - Mother Marianne Cope and the Sisters of St. Francis (U.S. National Park Service)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By 1883 she had reason to be proud as she had achieved the position as supervisor of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse.
Mother Marianne consulted with all the sisters and, to her credit, they felt free to voice their concerns.
But Mother Marianne, along with Sister Leopoldina Burns and Sister Vincentia McCormick, accepted the challenge and in November 1888 they arrived at Kalaupapa.
www.nps.gov /kala/historyculture/marianne.htm   (924 words)

  
 CNS STORY: Vatican decree clears way for beatification of Mother Marianne Cope
Mother Marianne, a member of the Sisters of Francis of Syracuse, N.Y., ministered to people with leprosy -- or Hansen's disease -- in Hawaii.
Mother Marianne and six other Franciscan sisters arrived in Hawaii on Nov. 8, 1883, in response to a plea from the Hawaiian government to care for leprosy patients in Honolulu.
After working in Honolulu and on the island of Maui, Mother Marianne arrived at Kalaupapa in 1888, a few months before the death of Blessed Damien de Veuster, who served at the Molokai leper colony.
www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0406947.htm   (690 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii, OCT. 30, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Mother Marianne Cope, a Franciscan religious whose mission in Hawaii was linked to that of Father Damien, is on the road to being canonized a saint.
Mother Marianne and Blessed Damien de Veuster are the only persons connected to Hawaii whose causes are under way, the Honolulu Advertiser reported.
Mother Marianne, who was superior of the Franciscan Convent in Syracuse, New York, answered the call and took six other nuns with her.
zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=43718   (431 words)

  
 Catholic Register
Mother Marianne, better known as “Mother Marianne of Molokai” was originally to have been beatified on Sunday, May 15.
In 1883, Mother Marianne led a group of nuns to Hawaii to serve as nurses to lepers.
Mother Marianne served on Molokai until her death, at the age of 80, in 1918.
cathregaj.org /reg/hpage.php?id=22   (402 words)

  
 Marianne Cope
Thus, on July 14, 1881, Mo. Marianne was reelected for a second term as provincial superior of the flourishing sisterhood.
Marianne was supposed only to accompany the sisters in their journey, see that the work was firmly established, and then return back to her position in Syracuse.
Sister Marianne was a heroine in life; she was a martyr in death.” (Tribute by Mrs.
newsaints.faithweb.com /biographies/Cope.htm   (3005 words)

  
 CNS STORY: Cardinal Saraiva Martins to beatify Mother Marianne Cope May 14
For years, Vatican officials and theologians have been discussing the possibility of returning to the pre-1971 practice in order to clarify the fact that a beatification is different from the declaration of sainthood.
Mother Marianne was a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, who have their motherhouse in Syracuse, N.Y. Mother Marianne left the motherhouse 122 years ago to go to Hawaii to care for the victims of leprosy, which today is called Hansen's disease.
Before Pope John Paul II died, Mother Marianne's beatification was scheduled for May 15, but Pope Benedict is scheduled to ordain new priests that day for the Diocese of Rome.
www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0502744.htm   (983 words)

  
 Hawaiian nun moves toward sainthood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mother Marianne Cope, the Franciscan nun whose name and mission have been linked with Fr Damien of Molokai, is now a step closer to being declared a saint.
Mother Marianne arrived in Hawaii in 1883 after King David Kalakaua had asked for Mainland Catholic help for the children of Hansen's disease (leprosy) patients in what was then being called Hawaii's "national affliction".
Mother Marianne lived in Kalaupapa for the last five months of Fr Damien's life after she had arrived to establish a women's home on the tiny peninsula.
www.cathnews.com /news/310/160.html   (332 words)

  
 Blessed Marianne of Kalaupapa
She was born [January 23, 1838] Barbara Koob to a family of modest means in the village of Heppenheim in the German grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.
[Note: In preparation for her Beatification, Mother Marianne's remains were exhumed in January of 2005 and transfered to the Motherhouse of her Order in Syracuse, New York.
Mother Marianne Cope was beatified on May 14, 2005 at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
www.angelfire.com /nv2/citeaux/kalaupapa/marianne_bio.html   (919 words)

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