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Article: BEATIFICATION DATE SET FOR MOTHER COPE.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2005
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Byline: Renee K. Gadoua Staff writer
The former Syracuse Franciscan leader known for her ministry among leprosy patients in Hawaii will become "Blessed Mother Marianne" in a May 15 Mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome, Italy.
"It is a good thing that it has been set now considering the health of the pope," the Rev. Peter Gumpel, a Vatican official who worked on Mother Marianne Cope's cause, said this week.
Thursday, the pope was taken to a hospital for the second time in a month. While the date of the ceremony could change, the pope's illness or death would not hold up the beatification, Gumpel said.
Beatification is the second of three ...