Catholics across upstate New York await eagerly the canonization this year of Blessed Marianne Cope. On Dec. 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the nun from Syracuse a saint after a second miracle was attributed to her on Dec. 6.
Sister Mary Laurence Hanley, OSF—who died last year before the news was announced—was a longtime advocate for Mother Marianne Cope’s sainthood. The nun, a member of the Order of St. Francis, had been a hospital administrator before she went to Hawaii in 1883 to minister to those aflicted with leprosy.
To learn more about Blessed Marianne Cope, visit the official website HERE.
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