A procession of hundreds of Catholics carried a small casket with the remains of the “Patriarch of the Diocese of Duluth” to ...

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 ...

Kalaupapa was a place of horror when Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, a Belgian Catholic priest, landed there in ... are usually sent to Honolulu’s St. Francis Hospital to give birth; their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two months after his arrival in Hawaiʻi, Belgium man Jozef Damien de Veuster was ordained as a priest in Downtown Honolulu ... and elevated to Sainthood as Saint Damien in 2009.

It means the Hawaiian spirit of deeply giving in friendship and deeds, a creed St. Damien de Veuster (born Jozef de Veuster ... The black and white photo of his disfigured face told the priest's story ...

The Belgian priest, born Joseph De Veuster, is credited with drastically ... At the end of a gravel road, Damien’s grave site stands next to St. Philomena, the church the priest expanded in ...

As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to Saint Damien of Molokai ... contracted Hansen’s disease. The Belgian priest, born Joseph De Veuster, is credited with drastically improving living ...