Posted at 2:25 p.m., Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Local chapel named for Mother Marianne Cope
By Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Staff Writer
Dedication of the Mother Marianne Cope Chapel will be Aug. 9; the 2,500-square-foot chapel was formerly known as Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel.
After arriving in the islands in 1883 and spending the next three decades caring for its ill, Cope — like Father Damien, Hawai'i's other notable Roman Catholic figure on the way to sainthood — made her way to Kalaupapa on Moloka'i, where Hansen's disease patients were being isolated. She supervised homes for girls and boys on Moloka'i.
Cope also opened a home for children of Hansen's disease patients on O'ahu and a hospital on Maui. She died in 1918.
In 2005, Mother Marianne was beatified, the last formal step before sainthood.
