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50 years ago — Oct. 6, 1972
THEY CAME TOGETHER—Representatives from the Maryknoll, Franciscan, Notre Dame, and Sacred Hearts Communities joined the Holy Family Sisters at Honokaa last weekend to observe the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Holy Family Sisters and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Holy Family Sisters arrival in Hawaii. Most Reverend John J. Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu, celebrated the Mass of Thanksgiving for the sisters. He was assisted by Father William Desmond, M.M., pastor of St. Joseph in Hilo and by Father Albert Garcia, SS.CC.
25 years ago — Oct. 17, 1997
Computer literacy
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School students try their hands at the new hardware in the Ewa Beach school’s computer lab, which opened Aug. 20. The lab is in the final phase of a four-year project started in 1993 with the re-roofing of the school library. The PTG raised $1,500 for the roof and $19,000 for 12 computers, printers, software and tables. The parish and businesses raised an additional $8,000.
10 years ago — Oct. 26, 2012
Pope Benedict canonizes Mother Marianne Cope with six others in joyful ceremony at St. Peter’s
Molokai has given the world a second saint. Pope Benedict XVI canonized Mother Marianne Cope Oct. 21 under glorious blue cloudless skies in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square just three years to the month after he raised Father Damien to the same consecrated status. …
Before a crowd of 80,000, the pope also raised six others to the ranks of sainthood … Tucked in the crowd in the square were at least 600 who came for Mother Marianne – from Syracuse where she started her religious life, from Hawaii where she served 35 years, and from her religious order, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities.
