
Father Damien Was a Priest and a Man of Sacrifice
The closer one looks at the life of St. Damien of Molokai, the clearer it becomes that the mystery of the Holy Eucharist lay at the heart of this priest.
The closer one looks at the life of St. Damien of Molokai, the clearer it becomes that the mystery of the Holy Eucharist lay at the heart of this priest.
“If the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor,” said St. Jerome, “the medicine cannot heal what it does not know.”
The greatest irony of progressivism is its dogmatic non-dogmatism.
St. Damien of Molokai was a religious priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who spent the last 16 years of his life caring for lepers in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Fr. Damien’s Faith Shone Amid Great Crisis
It is a little-known fact that Father Damien labored to established perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament among his lepers.
Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23.
In 1890, Stevenson published his famous ‘Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu’ in defense of St. Damien of Molokai
Franciscan Sister Alicia Damien Lau has served the lepers of Molokai on and off, beginning more than 50 years ago.
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