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Damien de Veuster |
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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. The religious worked in Kalaupapa, on Molokai, alongside Father Damien de Veuster during the last five months of his life. 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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