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{{Infobox saint
|name = Sister<br>Maria 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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|venerated_in = [[Roman Catholic Church]]
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|caption = Sister Leopoldina Burns in 1886
|birth_place = [[Utica]], [[New York]], [[United States]]
|death_place = [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]], [[United States]]
|titles = Religious
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'''Maria 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 web|url=https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=rKUaLE6s1lgC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=leopoldina+burns&source=bl&ots=tgssFOPJi7&sig=gb4cGyiSlR0mg8o9sr84433jxdo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy5-eJ1azaAhVByLwKHWyZBhgQ6AEIQDAH#v=onepage&q=leopoldina%20burns&f=false|title=The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai|publisher=books.google.com.ph|date=|accessdate=14 July 2017}}</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" />
Together with Mother Marianne Cope and 5 other sisters, they departed from Syracuse to travel to Honolulu to answer the request of King [[Kalākaua]] of Hawaii to care for leprosy sufferers. arriving on November 8, 1883. They traveled on the ''[[SS Mariposa]]''. With Mother Marianne as supervisor, the Sisters' task was to manage [[Kakaʻako]] Branch Hospital on [[Oʻahu]], which served as a receiving station for Hansen's disease patients gathered from all over the islands. The more severe cases were processed and shipped to the island of Molokaʻi for confinement in the settlement at Kalawao, and then later at [[Kalaupapa]].
In 1889, together with Mother Marianne and Sister [[Vincentia McCormick]], opened and ran a girls' school in Hawaii, which they named in [[Henry Perrine Baldwin]]'s honor, a prominent local businessman who supported their missions.
After serving for nearly 40 years on Molokai, she retired to the St. Francis Hopsital in Manoa Valley.<ref name="Death">[https://www.newspapers.com/image/275201265/?terms=leopoldina%2Bburns Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu, Hawaii) 03 Jun 1942]</ref>
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