Mother Marianne Cope, Syracuse, 1870

Mother Marianne Cope (23 January 1838 – 9 August 1918), was a Franciscan nun of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Heppenheim (Germany) and entered religious life in Syracuse, New York, she worked, lived and died for the lepers on the island of Moloka‘i in Hawai‘i. Photograph taken in Syracuse in 1870.