HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – More than a century after her death, the story of a saint who served those with leprosy and died on Molokaʻi is being told anew through science.
Chaminade University’s Forensic Sciences Unit is helping evaluate the remains of Mother Marianne Cope, uniting Marianist mission and modern forensic expertise to bring history to life.
Mother Marianne was a German-born American Franciscan nun who traveled from Syracuse, New York to the Kingdom of Hawai‘i in the late 1800s to help build the kingdom’s medical infrastructure…