America's 2 New Saints: A Hawaiian and A Native American, Both New Yorkers

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Liz Leyden

Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu, left, and others at a memorial to
Mother Marianne Cope at St. Joseph’s cemetery and mausoleum in Utica, N.Y.

NEW YORK---Mother Marianne will be one of seven Roman Catholic saints — including another New Yorker, Kateri Tekakwitha — canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday. Born Barbara Koob in what is now Germany, Mother Marianne moved with her family to Utica in 1839, when she was a year old. In 1883, she answered a call to help thousands of Hawaiians who were ill with a mysterious and disfiguring disease known as leprosy and who were being taken from their families and exiled to a remote peninsula on Molokai called Kalaupapa. [link]