VATICAN CITY — A 19th-century Belgian priest who ... will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The Rev. Damien de Veuster’s canonization ...

Father Damien de Veuster was a Belgian priest who subjected himself to leprosy to minister to the lepers’ colony on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. He lived from 1840-89. (Courtesy Photo ...

A 19th century Belgian priest who ministered ... will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The Rev. Damien de Veuster's canonization date of ...

A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii will be declared a saint Oct. 11 at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The Rev. Damien de Veuster's ...

Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 14, 2009 / 03:44 am Relics of the newly canonized St. Damien de Veuster, the Leper Priest of Molokai, will be presented for veneration by the faithful in Detroit, San ...

In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints ruled that a Hawaiian woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle linked to her prayers to Father Damien De Veuster. This led to the ...

Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints Sunday, including a 19th century priest whose work ... to Belgium-born Jozef De Veuster, more commonly known as Father Damien, who himself died from ...

The life and times of St. Damien of Molokai are being presented in blockbuster musical style in Belgium, his native country. The Roman Catholic priest, born Jozef De Veuster in 1840 and best known ...

F ather Joseph Damien de Veuster has been a storm center of controversy in Hawaii for the better part of a century. A Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest seeking converts, he was greeted with ...

the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with Hansen’s disease patients in the leper colony at Kalaupapa. What’s known as Saint ...