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Related: About this forumMother Marianne's Sainthood Date Set: Ceremony Scheduled For Oct. 21
POSTED: 2:54 pm HST February 18, 2012
UPDATED: 7:09 pm HST February 18, 2012
HONOLULU -- Hawaii will soon have another Catholic Saint as Pope Benedict XVI announced the date of Mother Marianne Cope's canonization.
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Mother Marianne will be canonized along with six others on Oct. 21st.
Cope came to Hawaii to help care for people with Hansen's disease. After Father Damien's death, she carried on his work on Kalaupapa.
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Mother Marianne worked in Hawaii for 40 years, making a difference in countless lives. She also made a difference after her death. The Catholic Church attributed two healing miracles to Mother Marianne, which are part of the requirements for Sainthood.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30492063/detail.html#ixzz1mnvit2PI
UPDATED: 7:09 pm HST February 18, 2012
HONOLULU -- Hawaii will soon have another Catholic Saint as Pope Benedict XVI announced the date of Mother Marianne Cope's canonization.
----------
Mother Marianne will be canonized along with six others on Oct. 21st.
Cope came to Hawaii to help care for people with Hansen's disease. After Father Damien's death, she carried on his work on Kalaupapa.
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Mother Marianne worked in Hawaii for 40 years, making a difference in countless lives. She also made a difference after her death. The Catholic Church attributed two healing miracles to Mother Marianne, which are part of the requirements for Sainthood.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30492063/detail.html#ixzz1mnvit2PI
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Mother Marianne's Sainthood Date Set: Ceremony Scheduled For Oct. 21 (Original Post)
ellisonz
Feb 2012
OP
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. I had no idea that was a disease
...but it explains a lot
ellisonz
(27,743 posts)2. Thanks for the bad memories...
dude.
Retaliation (you know you can't resist):
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. Tragic. If she could cure that, it WAS a miracle
That's one group that was immune to splitting up over "artistic differences".
no_hypocrisy
(48,851 posts)4. I would have predicted that Fr. Damian with his work with the Lepers
would have made him a candidate for sainthood before Mr. Marianne.
ellisonz
(27,743 posts)5. Father Damian was beatified in October 2009.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)6. Fisrt they beatify you, then they cannonize you, right?