A Hawaii catholic school is now home to a new statue of a woman on her way to sainthood.
This marble status of blessed Marianne Cope is now on the St. Francis school campus, named after the molokai nun who tended to the Hansen’s disease patients with saint Damien.
Cope’s sainthood cause is currently under review at the vatican.
"We’re praying and we’re hoping. she’s ‘blessed’ right now, we’re just hoping she’s going to be declared a saint by rome very soon, we’re hoping maybe in a year or so," says Sister Joan of Arc Souza, St. Francis School principal.
The seventeen-hundred-pound statue was carved in China and donated to the school.
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