ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of January WELCOME! SAINT MARIANNE COPE, ABBESS Saint Marianne Cope was born in 1838 in Heppenheim, Germany, the daughter of a farmer. Her parents had five children born in Germany and then five born in the United States of America, where the family emigrated in 1839 (to New York). SHE BECAME A NATURALISED AMERICAN St Marianne became a naturalised American and she wrote of experiencing a call to religious life at an early age. However, after completing her education she went to work in a factory in order to support her poor family after her father became an invalid. Only when her siblings became older did St Marianne feel free to enter the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse. SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS Her desire was to become a teacher and this she did, working in several schools in New York State. St Marianne also participated in the establishing of two hospitals in the New York area, one in Utica and the other in Syracuse. I...