|name = Sister<br />MariaMary Leopoldina Burns<br />[[Third Order of Saint Francis|T.O.S.F.]]
|birth_date = August 28, 1855
|death_date = June 3, 1942
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'''MariaMary Leopoldina Burns''' (August 28, 1855 – June 3, 1942), was an American religious sister who was a member of the [[Third Order of Saint Francis|Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York]], and a close companion and biographer of Saint [[Marianne Cope]] during the 1883 [[Hansen's Disease]] epidemic on the island of [[Molokaʻi]], [[Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKUaLE6s1lgC&q=leopoldina+burns&pg=PA172|title=The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai|date=11 May 2010|isbn=9781416551928|accessdate=14 July 2017|last1=Tayman|first1=John}}</ref>
Born on August 28, 1855, she was the daughter of James and Mary Burns, of [[Utica, New York]]. She joined the [[Third Order of Saint Francis|Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York]] in 1881.<ref name="Death" />
