Christian feast day: Marianne of Molokai

Marianne Cope

German-born American Franciscan Sister, saint and missionary to Hawaii (1838–1918)

Marianne Cope, O.S.F. was a German-born American Religious Sister who was a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding director of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first of 50 general hospitals in the country. In 1883 she led a group…