Damien
By Aldyth Morris.
Description
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; January 3, 1840 - April 15, 1889[1]), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary,[2] a missionary religious order. He won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii.[3] After sixteen years caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colo...
ISBN(s)
082480693X, 9780824806934
