Father Damien
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Damien De Veuster, popularly known as Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, was a Belgian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colon
A photograph of Father Damien taken shortly before his death
Father Damien in 1873 before he sailed for Hawaii
Father Damien, seen here with the Kalawao Girls Choir during the 1870s
Father Damien on his deathbed
Leper colony
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A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.
Father Damien
…Veuster; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), was a Belgian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colony in Molokaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii, from 1873 until his death in 1889. De Veuster taught the Catholic faith to the people of Hawaii. He also cared for…
Spinalonga on Crete, Greece, one of the last leprosy colonies in Europe, closed in 1957
Culion leper colony in Culion old town in Palawan, Philippines used to shelter one of the largest populations of people with leprosy in Asia, numbering between 3,500–4,000.
Taddiport in North Devon, England, formerly a medieval leper colony
Abandoned nun's quarters at the leper colony on Chacachacare Island in Trinidad and Tobago