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50 years ago — May 21, 1971
CYO Offers Youngsters Excursion Camp Program
(Pictured) PLAYING TOURIST – These are some of the happy CYO excursion campers visiting Iao Valley on Maui with the famous, tourist attraction: Iao Needle
The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) is providing an excellent, economical means for children of ages 7-13 to tour the neighbor islands in their Summer Excursion Camp Programs for 1971.
Departing Honolulu for Maui … the first group of excursion campers will find themselves well on their way to four fun-filled days of touring the Valley Isle. … The tuition of $60 covers air transportation, excursion fee, lodging and program costs.
Immaculate Conception School in Lihue, Kauai, will serve as Camp Quarters for the second group during the four-day tour of Kauai.
25 years ago — May 31, 1996
Bishop asks pope to advance Mother Marianne’s cause
Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo has asked the pope for his help in advancing the cause for the canonization of Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai.
The bishop wrote to Pope John Paul II on March 29 requesting that he “soon act favorably to the petition of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse” for the canonization of their member who brought dedicated nursing care a century ago to Maui, Oahu, and Molokai, especially to the victims of Hansen’s disease. …
The cause for Mother Marianne’s canonization got its official start in 1983.
Editor’s Note: Mother Marianne was declared venerable in 2004. She was beatified in 2005 and canonized in 2012.
10 years ago – May 27, 2011
Relic of Blessed Marianne enshrined in cathedral
As the sun set on May 13, at the end of a jubilant liturgy, Bishop Larry Silva placed a relic of Blessed Marianne Cope in a seven-foot-tall koa and glass case in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace.
It was May 14 in Rome, the sixth anniversary of the beatification of the Franciscan nun who succeeded St. Damien as Kalaupapa’s spiritual guiding force.
The permanent enshrinement of the relic, tiny fragments of Blessed Marianne’s bones sifted from her Kalaupapa gravesite six years ago, came at the end of a neighbor island tour. From May 6 to May 12, the relic had been displayed for veneration in seven churches on five islands.
We inadvertently missed including Heralding Back in our May 28, 2021, print edition.