Bishop Larry Silva will lead the inaugural St. Marianne Cope Charity Walk in Kakaako Gateway Park, Jan. 18, starting at 7:30 a.m. The two-mile stroll, a benefit for St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, starts and ends at Kakaako Gateway Park, passing the St. Marianne statue in Kewalo Basin Park along the way. Walk sponsors […]
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 […]
November’s a four-star anniversary month for Sisters of St. Francis
Hawaii’s Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities better start stocking up on cake candles. They are going to need a lot of them with all the anniversaries they’ll be celebrating shortly. November is a quadruple-header month, marking St. Marianne’s 175th birthday, the 130th anniversary of the sisters arrival in Hawaii, the 125th anniversary […]
Former St. Francis Hospital to reopen as skilled nursing facility
Three floors of the Sullivan Building on the St. Francis campus in Liliha will be converted into a skilled nursing facility. (HCH photo by Patrick Downes) Hawaii’s Sisters of St. Francis took a major step in their developing vision of long-term and elderly care with the announcement May 31 of a new 100-bed skilled […]
St. Francis Healthcare dedicates intergenerational center in Ewa
Keiki and kupuna now have a place in Ewa where both can go every day for supervision, companionship, fun, learning and care. Bishop Larry Silva blessed the St. Francis Intergenerational Center in Ewa Villages, Feb. 28. The $8 million center provides under one roof both a preschool and daycare for the elderly. This newest program […]
Castle Foundation gives new preschool $100,000
The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation awarded St. Francis Healthcare Foundation of Hawaii $100,000 last month for the completion of the St. Francis Preschool at the St. Francis Intergenerational Center on 1.25 acres in Ewa Villages. The gift follows another grant the foundation gave St. Francis of $50,000. Sister of St. Francis of the […]
