Pilgrimage & Exile

The Hawaiian Islands were an independent kingdom when Mother
Marianne Cope, the Provincial of the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse,
New York, was asked in 1883 to send some of her Sisters to care for the
Island’s sick poor, especially the victims of leprosy. Her answer was:
“I desire to accept this work in the name of the great St. Francis.”
The same year she personally led the first group of six Sisters
to Hawai‘i. They were the first members of a religious community
founded in the United States to enter upon mission work in a foreign
land. The Islands were not annexed to the United States until fifteen
years later; and they became the fiftieth State only in 1959.
Mother Marianne did not return to Syracuse after she went to
Hawai‘i in 1883; she remained in the Islands for the rest of her life.


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