Feast day of St. Marianne Cope
First American Franciscan Woman CanonizedSister Marianne Cope volunteered to care for the lepers on the island of Molokai, Hawaii during the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. She worked with St. Damien de Vuster and contiued to work there after his death.
"Mother Marianne and her assistants, Sister Leopoldina Burns and Sister Vincentia McCormick, opened Bishop House for women and girls and promised Father Damien they would run his Boy’s Home for him after he was gone. They did just that. She also taught her Sisters that their primary duty was 'to make life as pleasant and as comfortable as possible for those of our fellow creatures whom God has chosen to afflict with this terrible disease…'"
St. Marianne Cope, pray for us.