Pilgrims gear up to celebrate Mother Marianne’s sainthood

Gloria Marks — at the age of 74 and with the help of a wheelchair — once again will begin the 10,000-mile pilgrimage from her home on the remote Kalaupapa peninsula to Rome on Friday to witness the canonization of Hawaii’s second saint for her 19th- and 20th-century work with Hansen’s disease patients.

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