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Mother Marianne Cope is pictured in a circa 1883 photograph. The teacher and hospital administrator spent more than three decades ministering to those with leprosy on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. She will be canonized Oct. 21. (CNS photo/courtesy of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities) (Oct. 2, 2012) See COPE-PILGRIMAGE Oct. 2, 2012.