Path to sainthood clears for Kalaupapa nun

Marianne Cope has been endorsed for canonization

By Leila Fujimori

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 07, 2011

~~<p>Known affectionately as the "beloved mother of the outcasts," Blessed Marianne Cope, who ministered to Hansen's disease patients in Kalaupapa for the last 39 years of her life, is one step away from being canonized as a saint, Hawaii's second after St. Damien.</p>
<p>"I think it's great. She deserves that," Kalaupapa resident Clarence Kahilihiwa, 70, said. Cope dedicated her life to the patients at Kalaupapa when she arrived to help Father Damien de Veuster, Kahilihiwa said. "She never come for two weeks or two months. She came for give her all."</p>
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Known affectionately as the "beloved mother of the outcasts," Blessed Marianne Cope, who ministered to Hansen's disease patients in Kalaupapa for the last 39 years of her life, is one step away from being canonized as a saint, Hawaii's second after St. Damien.

"I think it's great. She deserves that," Kalaupapa resident Clarence Kahilihiwa, 70, said. Cope dedicated her life to the patients at Kalaupapa when she arrived to help Father Damien de Veuster, Kahilihiwa said. "She never come for two weeks or two months. She came for give her all." Login for more...