Damien de Veuster SSCC - Leper Priest of Molokai (1840-89)
Fr. Damien, born in Tremeloo, Belgium in 1840. In 1873 he went to minister as a priest in a leper colony on the island of Molokai. He died from leprosy in 1889 at 49 yrs. of age. Pope John Paul II beatified Damien in Brussells in 1995.
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