Educator was head of Hawaii-Southwest Sisters of St. Francis Sister Florence Remata, the minister of the Hawaii-Southwest Region of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, fulfilled one of her favorite quotations, “All things are passing; God alone suffices,” when she passed into eternity on Aug. 3, at Queen’s Medical Center after a […]
OBITUARY: Sister Mary Andrew Bomba, OSF
Inspired by a sermon about Father Damien, Texas-born Sister Mary Andrew Bomba joined the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse and fulfilled her wish to labor where the saint of Molokai labored. She died in Honolulu on Dec. 12 at the age of 92. She was in religious life 66 years. About her arrival in […]
Legacy of a saint: 130 years of the Sisters of St. Francis in Hawaii
One hundred thirty years ago, in 1883, St. Marianne Cope arrived with six sisters from Syracuse, N.Y., to the shores of the Sandwich Islands responding to a call to care for the kingdom’s poor abandoned natives. Since then, and without interruption, hundreds of Sisters of St. Francis have followed in the saint’s footsteps to serve […]