Rose Hawthorne Print

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Rose Hawthorne
Venerable Mother Mary Alphonsa O.P.
1851-1926
Dominican Congregation of St. Rose of Lima or Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer
Choose from paper or canvas print.
Paper print: This fine art print is ready to frame. The 8x10" and 11x14" are printed on acid-free 80 lb. cardstock. The 16x20" and larger are printed on premium 11-mil, acid-free paper. The watermark will not appear on your print.
Canvas print: All canvas prints are unmounted and printed on unstretched canvas with a 2” white border.
For larger sizes please contact us.
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Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in Boston but spent most of her childhood in England. It was a happy, cultured life with travel and exposure to the arts. This was where she was introduced to Catholic culture. In 1891 Rose and her husband George entered the Catholic Church. In 1887 Rose conceived the idea of ministering to cancer victims after she cared for her dying friend, Emma Lazarus and later took a nursing course to help them. In 1900, after her husband's death in 1898, she and 2 other companions were invested as Dominican tertiaries. They cared for “the neediest class we know-both in poverty and suffering…”