she was awarded an honorary Master of Arts from Bowdoin College. On April 18, 1926, the Rotary Club of New York presented her with a service medal as "soldier of love, a friend of the poor, organizer of rare ability, hope of the hopeless". The Rose Hawthorne Guild was established to promote her cause for canonization. In 2003, Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, approved the movement for Hawthorne's canonization. She now has the title "Servant of God" in the Catholic Church. Selected works Miss Dilletante, 1878[9] Along the Shore, 1888 A Story of Courage: A History of the Georgetown Visitation Convent Memories of Hawthorne References Sources External links Ibiblio: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop / Mother Alphonsa Rosary Hill Home official website 1851 births 1926 deaths 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns 19th-century American Roman Catholic nuns American Servants of God American women poets Catholics from Massachusetts Converts to Roman Catholicism Dominican Sisters Founders of Catholic religious communities People from Lenox, Massachusetts People of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York Poets from Massachusetts Poets from New York (state) Religious leaders from Massachusetts Writers from New York City