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Saint Damien of Molokai, St John of Avila
Saint Damien of Molokai
Missionary. Born in Tremelo, Belgium, in , Joseph de Veuster, left school at 13 to help on the family farm. He entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May , two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii.
In , he went to the Hawaiian government's leper colony on the island of Molokai, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support.
Under Fr Damien's care, the settlement soon had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Th
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Father Damien comes relax Kalawao sufferer colony
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In , Bishop of rome Benedict Cardinal canonized Daddy Damien chimp Saint Damien of Moloka‘i.
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"His cassock was worn and faded, his hair tumbled like a school-boy’s, his hands stained and hardened by toil; but the glow of health was in his face, the buoyancy of youth in his manner; while his ringing laugh, his ready sympathy, and his inspiring magnetism told of one who in any sphere might do a noble work, and who in that which he has chosen is doing the noblest of all works. This was Father Damien."
- Charles Warren Stoddard, who visited Kalawao in
Before Kalaupapa
No person is as central to the history of Kalawao and Kalaupapa as Joseph De Veuster, or, as he is best known to the world, Father Damien. He arrived during the early days of Kalawao’s history, when people with Hansen’s disease were being rounded up throughout the Hawaiian Islands and shipped to the isolated settlement on Moloka`i.
Joseph De Veuster was born in Tremeloo, Belgium, in Like his older brother Pamphile, Joseph became a priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. Pamphile was to serve as a missionary in the far distant "Sandwich Islands," but when it came time for him to depart he was too ill to go. His brother Joseph went in his place.
He arrived in Honolulu on March 19, There he was ordained in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace on May 21 and took the name of Damien. His f