Mother Marianne's Sainthood Date Set: Ceremony Scheduled For Oct. 21

[ellisonz]

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

[jberryhill]

1. I had no idea that was a disease

...but it explains a lot

[ellisonz]

2. Thanks for the bad memories...

dude.

Retaliation (you know you can't resist):

[jberryhill]

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]

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]

5. Father Damian was beatified in October 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien#Canonization

[jberryhill]

6. Fisrt they beatify you, then they cannonize you, right?