Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851 – 1926). American writer and religious leader. As Mother Mary Alphonsa, she was a Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne.
She was the youngest child of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia Peabody.
Rose married author George Parsons Lathrop in 1871 and in 1876 they had a son, Francis, who died of diphtheria at the age of five. Following Francis' death, George had become an alcoholic and was increasingly unstable, so that the Lathrops separated permanently in 1896. George died of cirrhosis three years later.
In the summer of 1896, Rose trained as a nurse at the then–New York Cancer Hospital, the first institution in the United States to provide training in treating cancer at a time when general hospitals in the city did not admit patients with cancer.
On December 8, 1900, Rose founded a new religious order, the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer (now known as the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne); she became its first Mother Superior, with the name Mother Mary Alphonsa.
In 2003, Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, approved the movement for Mother Mary Alphonsa's canonization. She now has the title "Servant of God" in the Catholic Church.
Her eldest sister was Una Hawthorne.
- "In plain English, we have another little red-headed daughter." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Mary_Alphonsa
- "Reminders of Lathrop are omnipresent, with a portrait adorning a wall and a room dedicated to memorializing everything from locks of her red hair to correspondence with friends." https://eu.usatoday.com/.../ny-matriarch-sainthood/2159781/
- "By the cast window sat a lovely creature with a matchless crown of red-gold hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=uZ4KLtokGNAC&pg=PT301...
- "Mrs Lathrop, beautiful and youthful-looking, with a mass of rich auburn hair..." https://www.patheos.com/.../nathaniel-hawthornes-daughter...
- "Baby Rose,
appropriately nicknamed Rosebud, was a jolly, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed
toddler, with the same red-gold hair that her sister possessed." http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/mirror_eldritch/wayha.html
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