Mother Alphonsa Hawthorne
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- Also known as
-
Rose Hawthorne
Mother Alphonsa
- Profile
- Daughter of the New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Convert to Catholicism.
Foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Rose of Lima.
Her Cause for Canonization has opened.
- Born
- 20 May 1851 in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA as Rose Hawthorne
- Died
- 9 July 1926 in Hawthorne, New York, USA of natural causes
- Name Meaning
-
noble ready;
battle ready
- Venerated
- pending;
if you have information relevant to the Cause of Mother Alphonsa, contact
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
600 Linda Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
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