Bishop Larry Silva will celebrate Mass for the feast of St. Marianne Cope 6 p.m., Jan. 23, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace.
After the liturgy, dinner for Mass attendees will be hosted by the diocese in the Kamiano Center, the building just makai of the cathedral on the Fort Street Mall.
It will be the second feast day for the Molokai saint since her canonization by Pope Benedict in Rome in 2012. Jan. 23 is her birthday.
St. Marianne Cope was the superior of her New York order and chief administrator of two Catholic hospitals when she volunteered to come to Hawaii to care for children and adults afflicted with the then-fatal disease of leprosy.
She never returned to her Franciscan motherhouse in Syracuse. She died in 1918 and was buried in Kalaupapa. Her remains were exhumed in 2005 as part of the beatification process and brought to the Syracuse motherhouse where a shrine is displayed.
She was beatified by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins on May 14, 2005, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
