St. Marianne Cope from the Apostleship of Prayer

This is a short piece on a remarkable Saint that I knew little about.  St. Marianne Cope cared for St. Damien of Molokai in his illness and carried on his work, caring for the victims of Hanson's Disease, more commonly known as leprosy.  She is the 11th American citizen to be canonized, and holds the distinction of being in he first set of beatifications of Pope Benedict's pontificate and also among his last group of canonizations.