Information on David Gunston, or Gonson, an English member of the Knights of Malta. He was imprisoned in the Tower when Henry VIII suppressed the Order, and was martyred in 1541.
Popularly known as Father Damien, St. Damien de Veuster was a nineteenth-century Belgian missionary to Hawai'i. He volunteered to be sent to Molokai, where lepers were quarantined. He himself caught the disease, and died in 1889, at the age of 49. He was beatified in 1995 and became a canonized saint in the Catholic Church in 2009.