Saint marianne cope biography of abraham lincoln

          Barbara Koob was born in Germany in 1838 to Peter Koob and his wife Barbara Witzenbacher. A year later, her family emigrated to the United States, making their home in Utica, New York.

Like many who have come to the United States, the family anglicized their last name, becoming the Cope family. She and her family would become United States citizens in the 1850s.

         Barbara was the oldest child and grew up attending school at her parish of St.

Joseph. When Barbara was in the eighth grade, her father became ill and could no longer work. So Barbara left school to find work in a factory to help support her family.

Saint marianne cope biography of abraham lincoln

She did that for nine years, delaying her entry into the religious life that she had felt called to from an early age. In 1862, at the age of 24, Barbara entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis in Syracuse, New York.

She chose the name Marianne when she made her religious vows.

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