Sisters of St. Francis from all over the globe came to Syracuse to honor one of their own,
Blessed Mother Marianne Cope.The Catholic nun served in Utica and Rome more than a hundred years ago. She also aided in the effort to care for victims of leprosy in Hawaii. She was beatified in 2005.
Thursday, sisters from Hawaii joined local sisters to honor Cope with Kahilis, which are standards of royalty made with ten thousand feathers, each representing a prayer for the beholder.
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