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The Hawaiian Islands
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Oahu
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace,
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On Nov. 8, 1883, Franciscan Sisters were officially welcomed to Hawaii at the Cathedral by the Bishop of Olba. The occasion was noted in Hawaii's calendars as the "Landing of the Sisters Day." Mother Marianne Cope was the leader of a group of seven sisters.
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The sisters generally attended Mass and other religious services at the places where they worked.
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Although all of the sisters were significant in the setting up of the mission, only one of these sisters later was missioned at Molokai.
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The hospital was the Franciscan Sisters' workplace with leprosy patients of both sexes with Mother Marianne in charge (1884-1888). The hospital closed in 1888 and Mother Marianne with two sister companions went to Kalaupapa, Molokai. The receiving station remained open for the moving of the rest of the patients to the settlement. The following year, a few sisters working there joined Mother Marianne to care for the boys at Damien's Boys Home, Kalawao.
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The government plan for the Receiving Station to close did not work out and a lay woman took charge for a brief time. This arrangement did not work out and Mother Marianne was asked to arrange for the Franciscan sisters to take charge again in 1890. She made a trip from Molokai to Honolulu to do so. The government moved the Receiving Station to Kalihi.
Kapiolani Home, Kakaako, Honolulu (four different locations)
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The first Kapiolani Home for female children of the patients was built on the grounds of Branch Hospital in 1885. Because there was difficulty getting workers on the Branch Hospital grounds, the sisters added the work to their charges. Mother Marianne was decorated with the royal medal of Kapiolani by King Kalakaua on the day of its dedication. (Nov.9th)
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Three more succeeding locations were at different locales in Kalihi.
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Kapiolani Home (2nd location) opened in Kalihi Kai in 1891 adjacent to the Kalihi Hospital and Receiving Station;
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(3rd location) 1900-1912 Kalihi Plague Camp (spot on beach about half a mile makai (towards the sea) of Kalihi Pumping Station);
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(4th location) 1912-1938 Meyers Street, Kalihi Uka. The Kapiolani Home closed at the time the government decided there was not further need.
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Current burial site of most Franciscan sisters of
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Site of Mother Marianne Memorial (currently
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1865
Maui
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St. Anthony's Church, Wailuku
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This property was the site of Fr. Damien DeVeuster's offer to go to the
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Sisters of Saint Francis' connections with site: 1884 Malulani Hospital-first hospital on island was set up by Mother Marianne. The hospital currently is
Island of Molokai : Kalaupapa and Kalawao
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Bishop Home at Kalaupapa
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1888 Nov.8. - Aug. 9, 1918. Mother Marianne assumed leadership at Bishop Home, Kalaupapa for leprous women and girls. Mother was the only one of the first group of Sisters arriving in Hawaii in 1883 that went on to serve at Molokai in 1888. One had died; another had serious mental problems and returned to Syracuse; another not weathering conditions returned to Syracuse; two went on to work at the ordinary hospital in Maui, and one stayed behind at Oahu to work at the receiving station for leprosy patients until she was called to Molokai a year later. When Mother Marianne expanded the Franciscan Mission to the island of Molokai in 1888, beginning at Bishop Home, she brought with her two later nun arrivals.
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At Bishop Home, a new convent was built at the same location. A memorial to Mother Marianne is nearby.
St. Francis Church, Kalaupapa
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In 1900, Mother Marianne & companions were present at its dedication by Bishop Gulstan Ropert who honored the Sisters by naming it after their patron, St. Francis of Assisi. This church burnt down in 1907 and the present church was erected in 1908. Again, it was named St. Francis Church. This church also was attended by Mother Marianne Cope and companion sisters and still is being attended by the few Franciscan sisters who minister there.
The Mission at Kalawao
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Boys' Home at Kalawao: 1889 Apr. - Nov. 1895. Mother Marianne was asked to take charge by the Hawaiian government after Fr. Damien's death in 1889. Buildup of the first Baldwin Home started in 1892 and was completed in 1894 during her time of leadership.
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Father Damien built the beginning establishment for boys near the church and his home on the same side of the road as St. Philomena Church. When Sisters moved into a convent at Kalawao, (a few miles from Bishop Home at Kalaupapa), Mother Marianne began asking for buildings for children to be built near the sisters' convent which was on the opposite side of the road from the church and Fr. Damien's dormitories. This new establishment of many buildings became the first Baldwin Home.
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At Kalawao, today, there is nothing left to visit of these buildings with the exception of St. Philomena's Church which was built in part by Father Damien.
Island of Hawaii’i
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Father Damien spent his early years in the
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The decommissioned former Star of the Sea Painted Church - Kalapana's "