Also known as Rose Hawthorne
Mother Alphonsa
Profile Daughter of the New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Convert to Catholicism. Foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Rose of Lima. Her Cause for Canonization has opened.
Born May 20, 1851 in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA as Rose Hawthorne
Died July 9, 1926 in Hawthorne, New York, USA of natural causes
Name Meaning noble ready; battle ready
Venerated; pending; if you have information relevant to the Cause of Mother Alphonsa, contact
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
600 Linda Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA