In the news along with Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha is also Blessed Mother Marianne of Molokai. In the same decree attesting to the miracle that will lead to Tekakwitha’s canonization, Benedict XVI declared that another miracle was attributed to Mother Marianne (born Barbara Cope). Mother Marianne was a Sister of the Third Order Franciscans of Syracuse, who was born in Heppenheim, Germany and died on the island of Molokai, Hawaii on August 9, 1918.
Mother Marianne worked among the leper colonies on that island, taking up what St. Damien had done earlier on the same location.
Saint Marianne of Molokai, pray for us!
