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Saint Damien de Veuster
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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.
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Brief biography. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Photo of a stylized bronze sculpture, donated by the state of Hawaii; short biography.
Biography from the Vatican web site, on the occasion of his canonization.
Biography and discussion of his legacy.
Photo of a stylized bronze sculpture, donated by the state of Hawaii; short biography.
Biography from the Vatican web site, on the occasion of his canonization.
Biography and discussion of his legacy.
Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Brief biography. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
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