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Damien de Veuster

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Da·mien de Veus·ter  (dm-n d vystr, dä-my d v-str), Joseph Known as "Father Damien." 1840-1889.
Belgian Roman Catholic missionary who ministered to the leper colony on Molokai (1873-1889), where he contracted leprosy and died.
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The one probably best known in the West is the Belgian priest Damien de Veuster ((1840-1889) who volunteered to look after lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
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In 1936 a similar controversy took place when the remains of the famed Blessed Father Damien de Veuster, a victim of leprosy himself, were removed from Kalaupapa and reinterred in his home country of Belgium.
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Damien de Veuster was the Belgian priest who helped the sick in the region from 1873 until he himself succumbed to disease in 1889.
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