The Priest Who Said "We Lepers
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster boarded a ship bound for Molokai, Hawaii — a remote peninsula where the government exiled...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Philippians 2:6-11.
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster boarded a ship bound for Molokai, Hawaii — a remote peninsula where the government exiled anyone diagnosed with leprosy. No one who entered the colony was expected to leave. Damien went anyway. He was an educated man with a promising career in the Church ahead of him. He could have served comfortably in any parish in Europe.…
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