24 Facts About Marianne Cope

In 2005, Marianne Cope was beatified by decision of Pope Benedict XVI.

Marianne Cope was canonized by the same pope on October 21,2012, along with Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American.

Marianne Cope was the 11th Catholic active in what is the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

Marianne Cope was born Barbara Koob on January 23,1838, in Heppenheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse to Peter Koob and his wife Barbara Witzenbacher.

Marianne Cope received her First Holy Communion and Confirmation at the historic Old St Johns Church in Utica, New York.

Marianne Cope entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York.

Marianne Cope became first a teacher and then a principal in newly established schools for the region's German-speaking immigrants.

Marianne Cope helped found the first two Catholic hospitals in Central New York, with charters stipulating that medical care was to be provided to all, regardless of race or creed.

Marianne Cope was appointed by the Superior General to govern St Joseph's Hospital, the first public hospital in Syracuse, serving from 1870 to 1877.

Marianne Cope contracted with the college to accept their students for treating patients in her hospital to further their medical education.

Marianne Cope departed from Syracuse with six other Sisters to travel to Honolulu to answer this call, arriving on November 8,1883.

Marianne Cope had to deal with a government-appointed administrator's maltreatment of the leprosy patients at the Branch Hospital at Kakaako, an area adjoining Honolulu.

Marianne Cope told the government that either the administrator had to be dismissed or the Sisters would return to Syracuse.

Marianne Cope accepted the call, knowing that it might mean she would never return to New York.

In November 1888, Marianne Cope moved to the "Charles R Bishop Home for Unprotected Leper Girls and Women" on Kalaupapa.

Marianne Cope had met him shortly after her arrival in Hawaii.

Marianne Cope died of natural causes on August 9,1918.

Marianne Cope was buried on the grounds of the Bishop Home.

The community which Marianne Cope founded on Molokai continues to minister to the few patients who have Hansen Disease.

On May 14,2005, Marianne Cope was beatified in Vatican City by decision of Pope Benedict XVI.

Marianne Cope was both the first Beatification and the last Canonization under Pope Benedict XVI.

St Marianne Cope sometimes attended Mass at the cathedral, and it was where Father Damien was ordained.

Marianne Cope is honored jointly with Saint Damien of Moloka'i on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church.

Marianne Cope was portrayed by South African actress Alice Krige.