Rose Hawthorne’s story is at once unique and relatable. She was a Catholic convert; the separated wife of an alcoholic, who died a few years after they’d parted ways; a model of the works of mercy through the work of the Hawthorne Dominicans in serving the poor suffering from cancer. “Many Catholics are unfamiliar with the life and influence of Rose Hawthorne,” according to the Rose Hawthorne Guild, “and yet there is scarcely one who could not identify with Rose.” Stockbridge-Lenox roots The famous writer and his family lived in a red “cottage” on the border of present-day Stockbridge and Lenox from August 1850 to November 1851. Rose was born on May 20, 1851, the third and last child of Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. The original cottage burned down in 1890, but a “re-creation” of it sits behind the world-famous Tanglewood concert venue. By Chris Sparks I f her surname sounds familiar, it should, from your schooldays: She was the daughter of the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and other classics. And she was born just a few miles from the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Mother Mary Alphonsa, OP, and (inset) her famous father, Nathaniel Hawthorne. the saint neXt dooR 28 Marian Helper • SuMMer 2024 • Marian.org Venerable Mother Mary Alphonsa, OP haWthorne-DominiCans.org
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