What’s known as Saint Damien’s Feast Day marks the anniversary of his arrival at Kalawao on Molokai. ”When he got to Kalawao in 1873, what he noticed was that some of his parishioners whom ...

St. Damien and St. Marianne's legacies inspire hope on the Tree of Hope Tour, bringing relics and stories of compassion to ...

Aug. 6—The life and times of St. Damien of Molokai are being presented in blockbuster musical style in Belgium, his native country. The life and times of St. Damien of Molokai are being ...

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) Jozef ...

Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii's leprosy patients.

As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to Saint Damien of Molokai, she wanted to walk where he walked, pray where he prayed, and witness for herself the place — both stunning and haunting ...

As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to St. Damien of Molokai, she wanted to walk where he walked, pray where he prayed and witness for herself the place — both stunning and haunting — where ...

On May 10, 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.

The pilgrimage to Kalaupapa, defined by its natural isolation in northern Molokai, is logistically challenging to make under normal circumstances, with longstanding rules including prohibiting ...