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Booth at the 2007 Sacred Heart Family Conference Centennial Celebration of the Home Enthronement, held in Liverpool, NY.

August 2007

BLESSED MARIANNE BOOTH AT THE 2007 SACRED HEART FAMILY CONFERENCE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

On August 23 - 26, the Office of the Cause of Blessed Marianne had a booth at the 2007 Sacred Heart Family Conference Centennial Celebration of the Home Enthronement, held in Liverpool, NY.  We were able to tell many about the life of Blessed Marianne.   We displayed a copy of an original document dated Oct. 4, 1918, from the Bishop Home in Kalaupapa enthroning the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Home and consecrating its members, with the original signatures of Sr. Benedicta Rodenmacher and the Catholic patients who lived there.  We also were able to display a unique statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  This statue was given by Fr. Alphonse Lehrscholl, Mother Marianne’s nephew, (her sister Eva’s son), to special benefactors at the time.   He helped raise funds for the Motherhouse
built in 1896 when he was pastor of the Assumption Church in Syracuse.  It was recently given to the Cause Museum by Mother Marianne’s great nephew, Dr. Paul DeMare.    Note: Marion Ruff, Mother Marianne’s relative, passed away in October 2006 at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home, Utica, NY, where her sister Helen still resides.  These two ladies’ sister, Elizabeth, was the mother of Dr. DeMare and his brother, E.G. 

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Blessed Marianne was also very well represented at the New York State Fair this year (Aug. 23 – Sept.3).  Sr. Jeanne F. Karp, in charge of Vocations for the Sisters of St. Francis, set up a booth with a group of volunteers to tell people about the Sisters and Blessed Marianne.  Hundreds of written petitions to Blessed Marianne were received!