Father Damien
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title:
Father Damien
text:
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai or Saint Damien De Veuster, born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. He was recognized for his ministry, which he led from 1873 until his death in 1889, in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to people with leprosy, who lived in government-mandated medical quarantine in a settlement on the Kalaupapa Peninsula of Molokaʻi. During this time, he
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Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
date created:
2002-09-13T22:45:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:14:29Z
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