It was two weeks ago today that Sister Richard Marie Toal, a former nurse in Kalaupapa, celebrated her 94th birthday. She worked in the footsteps of Mother Marianne Cope for 40 years as a Franciscan nun for the order of the Sisters of St. Francis, serving the Hansen’s disease patients at the Kalaupapa settlement. At [...]
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