Les plus grands Belges
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Les plus grands Belges is a television show that aired in 2005 on the Belgian French-speaking public channel RTBF. In the program the audience could vote for the greatest Belgian by using the website,
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Father Damien, photograph by William Brigham
Eddy Merckx Molteni 1973
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
Les plus grands Belges
…VRT was held around the same time, producing strikingly different results, such as both top-10s sharing only three personalities, namely Jacques Brel, Father Damien and Eddy Merckx. To some this illustrates the low significance of any national cultural identity that remains shared among the two predominant language…
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