A Sister of St. Francis, Saint Marianne Cope was canonized October 21, 2012.
She is the first Franciscan woman from North America to be canonized.
A woman of great valor, this beloved mother of outcasts spent her early years in central New York where she served as a leader in the field of health care, education and of her own congregation. Responding to a call to care for the poor sick on the then Sandwich Islands, she devoted 35 years to caring for those afflicted with Hansen’s disease on Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii.
Based on the bulletin of January 19, 2025.
