The relics of St. Damien and St. Marianne will be traveling from Hawaii to the Big Apple this month, making three stops, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
The first class relics, bone fragments from the two Molokai saints, will be on display for veneration in the sanctuary of St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, 5-9 p.m. Sep. 27.
On Sept. 28, the relics will be displayed, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the New York Catholic Bible Summit on the Hunter College Campus.
On Sunday, Sept. 29, the relics will be shown during the 10:15 a.m. Mass at the famous St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, celebrated by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and then placed in the Lady Chapel for veneration.
Accompanying the relics to New York is Sister Cheryl Wint, a Hawaii-based Sister of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities.
St. Damien de Veuster, who served the leprosy patients quarantined in Kalaupapa for 16 years until his death of the disease in 1889, was canonized in 2009.
St. Marianne Cope, a Franciscan hospital administrator from Syracuse, N.Y., who in 1883 accepted the mission to care for Hawaii’s Hansen’s disease patients on Oahu and later in Kalaupapa, was declared a saint in 2012.
