The Shepherd of Molokai
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula on the Hawaiian...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 15:3-7.
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. The colony there housed roughly eight hundred men, women, and children suffering from Hansen's disease — leprosy. The Hawaiian government had banished them, and most of the world had forgotten them entirely.…
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