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	Blessed Father Damien
		Damien, clear-eyed and devout, stood at the altar.
		Damien's life was suffused with horror, yet he refused to be broken by it and refused to permit his little flock to be swept into despair.
		Damien was alone of the frontier of death.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/DAMIEN.htm (6845 words)

	Father Damien - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Father Damien is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS and the State of Hawaii.
		Damien's first course of action was to build a church and establish the Parish of Saint Philomena.
		In Blessed Damien's role as patron of those with HIV and AIDS, the world's only Roman Catholic memorial chapel to those who have died of this disease, at the Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre in Montreal, is consecrated to him.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Father_Damien (1948 words)

	Father Damien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who helped lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and also died of the disease.
		Damien was born to a farming couple in Tremelo, Belgium.
		In 1865, Father Damien was assigned to the Catholic Mission in North Kohala on the island of Hawai‘i.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Father_Damien (2035 words)

	Molokai: The Story of Father Damien by Hilde Eynikel
		After having written an initial best-seller on the life of Damien de Veuster, she was given unprecedented access to the as yet undisclosed archives kept in a concrete vault in the basement of the Picpus Fathers (Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary) in Louvain, Belgium for this second, definitive biography.
		Damien pointed to his horse.' Before long, he was sharing more aspects of their life--the pipe passed around the circle for each man to draw on, the food taken from the common bowl with one's fingers--but not without anguish.
		Father Damien contracted the disease, as he knew he would before he began bandaging his flock's open wounds and sharing their meals.
	www.albahouse.org /Molokai.htm (1722 words)

	Catholic Saints - Blessed Damien of Molokai
		Damien’s life was to become truly a sacrifice of love as he cared for those afflicted with leprosy, the disease ultimately consuming his own body.
		Damien’s presence there made the world realize that those afflicted with leprosy were not “unclean outcasts,” but vulnerable human beings whom God deeply loved and who were worthy of the same respect and dignity as anyone else.
		Father Joseph Damien de Veuster was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 4, 1995, and the state of Hawaii has honored him with a statue which stands in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building.
	www.wau.org /resources/saints/saintarchive/damien_molokai.html (1597 words)

	Father Damien - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		and Blessed Damien of Molokai (January 3, 1840 - April 15, 1889), was a Belgian Catholic missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who is revered primarily by Hawaii residents and Christians for having dedicated his life in service to the lepers of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
		Blessed Damien was born to a farming couple in Tremelo, Belgium.
		Sinnett nursed Damien in the last phases of the disease, closing his eyes upon Father Damien's death at the age of 49 from leprosy.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/f/a/t/Father_Damien_700c.html (1844 words)

	Father Damien - LoveToKnow 1911
		FATHER DAMIEN, the name in religion of Joseph De Veuster (1840-1889), Belgian missionary, was born at Tremeloo, near Louvain, on the 3rd of January 1840.
		He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth year entered the Church, joining the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary (also known as the Picpus Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion.
		Some ill-considered imputations upon Father Damien by a Presbyterian minister produced a memorable tract by Robert Louis Stevenson (An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr Hyde, 1890).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Father_Damien (290 words)

	Kalaupapa National Historical Park - Father Damien (U.S. National Park Service)
		Damien was the first, and soon he was on a boat carrying cattle and 50 patients bound for Kalawao.
		Damien was the most famous but not the first caregiver or religious worker to arrive at Kalawao.
		Father Damien had lived in Kalawao 12 years when it was confirmed that he had contracted Hansen’s disease.
	www.nps.gov /kala/historyculture/damien.htm (751 words)

	Father Damien
		Father Damien was born Joseph de Veuster in Tremeloo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840.
		While in Kohala, Father Damien wrote to the Father General that many of his parishioners had been shipped to a leper colony on Molokai and that he had "an undeniable feeling that soon I shall join them." On May 10, 1873, Father Damien traveled with Bishop Maigret and a shipload of lepers to Molokai.
		The bronze statue is based on photographs taken of Father Damien near the end of his life, with the scars of his disease visible on his face and his right arm in a sling beneath his cloak.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/damien.cfm (404 words)

	Saint Michael Center - Blessed Father Damien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The letter, from his superiors, gave the priest, Father Damien De Veuster, permission to stay where he was and where he, in the springtime of 1873, longed with all his heart to be on Molokai, one of the Hawaiian Islands.
		Damien was alone on the frontier of death.
		Damien promised her that not one of her Sisters would ever be afflicted with leprosy.
	www.smcenter.org /damien.htm (3450 words)

	The My Hero Project - Joseph De Veuster (Father Damien)
		Father Damien was a priest that helped many of the Hansen patients that were left on the Kalaupapa Peninsula.
		Father Damien was born on January 3, 1840 in Tremeloo, Belgium and died on April 15, 1889 on the island of Moloka`i, HI.
		Father Damien is an important person to me because he put his own life on the line to help the Hansen patients.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Father_Damien_Kamehameha (427 words)

	Biography of Father Damien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		presented Damien to the colonists as "one who will be a father to you, and who loves you so much that he does not hesitate to become one of you; to live and die with you." The settlement was surrounded by an impregnable mountain ridge.
		Damien was sent to a morally deprived, lawless colony of death where people were forced to fight each other to survive.
		Damien never wore the medal given to him but was glad it brought the world's attention to Kalaupapa.
	biography-1.qardinalinfo.com /d/Damien_Father.html (1071 words)

	Damien Father Damien - Letter
		For it is in the interest of all mankind, and the cause of public decency in every quarter of the world, not only that Damien should be righted, but that you and your letter should be displayed at length, in their true colours, to the public eye.
		It was a different place when Damien came there and made this great renunciation, and slept that first night under a tree amidst his rotting brethren: alone with pestilence; and looking forward (with what courage, with what pitiful sinkings of dread, God only knows) to a lifetime of dressing sores and stumps.
		Well, the man who tried to do what Damien did, is my father, and the father of the man in the Apia bar, and the father of all who love goodness; and he was your father too, if God had given you grace to see it.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/biography/FatherDamien/Chap1.html (3733 words)

	Famous Belgians - Father Damien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Born in Tremelo, Belgium, Damien was the son of a farmer.
		Damien had nearly finished his studies for the priesthood when his brother, about to embark for the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, fell ill. At his own request, Damien was sent (1865) in his place.
		Damien devoted himself entirely to the spiritual and physical care of the lepers, obtaining government aid for them and encouraging agriculture and local industry.
	www.famousbelgians.net /damien.htm (237 words)

	Damien, Father - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He went to Hawaii (1864) as a Picpus Father (Father of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary).
		Attention was called to Father Damien by a tract in his defense by R. Stevenson, An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde, addressed to a minister who had made some slanderous insinuations against Father Damien shortly after his death.
		The area remains a memorial to Father Damien, a young Belgian priest who provided comfort to leprosy victims sent to the area.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/D/Damien-F.asp (343 words)

	Damien Ministries :: History
		Born Joseph de Vesteur in 1840 in the village of Tremelo in Flanders, Belgium, Joseph was the seventh of eight siblings.
		At the age of thirty-three, Father Damien moved to the island of Molokai to live and work among people with leprosy.
		It wasn't until 1995 that the incredible work Father Damien had done was recognized officially by the Church, resulting in a beatification by Pope John Paul II.
	www.damienministries.org /history (1005 words)

	Father Damien in Hawaii. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was Father Damien de Veuster, S.S.C.C., the Hero of Moloka'i, and his memory has not dimmed but has spread to every continent in the world...
		Damien came to Hawal'i as a young deacon, replacing his brother, Pamphile, who had fallen ill after being assigned to the islands.
		Someone visiting the settlement in 1888 was stunned to find Father Damien on the roof of the new church, worldng with the masons and carpenters.
	www.hawaiiguide.com /origins/damien.htm (579 words)

	Father Damien
		He spent that night in cleaning it, and was disturbed by the drunken laughter of the dissolute-- for it was a lawless community, by the cries of the dying, and by the howling of the wild dogs that devoured the dead.>> http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/0415.htm
		I believe that Father Damien's particular expression of "unconditional love and compassion" is directly related to his Venus/Nessus opposition.
		For Father Damien the flower was his leprosy, and the fruit was evident when other people came to help him, beginning with Joseph Dutton in 1886 and mother Marianne Cope and two of her sisters from the Order of Saint Francis in 1888, who were able to carry on his work.
	www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/posts/bio/damien.html (1102 words)

	BookRags: Damien, Father Biography
		The Belgian missionary Father Damien (1840-1889) is known for his work among the lepers on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.
		Father Damien was born Joseph de Veuster in Tremeloo, Belgium, on Jan. 3, 1840, of pious and sturdy Flemish peasant stock.
		Father Damien received the highest Hawaiian decoration for his pioneering work with lepers, and his work received great publicity.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/damien-father (448 words)

	Father Damien - 125th Anniversary of his arrival at Kalaupapa
		On May 10th 1873, Father Damien De Veuster (a Belgian Catholic priest) stepped ashore for the first time at Kalawao.
		Black and White picture of a young Father Damien (from an original photo).
		On May 10th 1873, Father Damien De Veuster stepped ashore for the first time at Kalawao on the Kalaupapa peninsula, Moloka'i, Hawai'i.
	www.stampshows.com /fr-damien.html (330 words)

	Tour: The Kalaupapa National Historical Park and Guided Mule Tour
		Father Damien is "offically" diagnosed as having leprosy and the news is made public.
		Father Damien dies on April 15 at the age of 49.
		Upon arriving in Kalaupapa, you'll be met by your Damien Tours guide and for the next few hours you'll experience one of Hawaii's most remarkable tours, in a community hidden from the world for so many years.
	www.muleride.com (883 words)

	Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story
		Damien overcame major obstacles to become a Catholic priest and serve as a missionary in Hawai'i.
		Father Damien De Veuster had voluntarily become the first resident clergyman and part-time physician for the leper colony.
		Living among the lepers, Damien knowingly took the risk of direct physical contact thousands of times, administering the sacraments and cleaning and bandaging wounds, while he pursued his dream of turning Kalaupapa into a vital community.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0824822323 (722 words)

	Amazon.com: Molokai: the Story of Father Damien: DVD: Paul Cox,David Wenham,Kate Ceberano,Jan Decleir,Chris ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Father Damien volunteered to be assigned to Molokai.
		To be sure, with the arrival of Damien, there was a significant improvement in the lives of the lepers, but in the historical reality, the conditions and problems Damien faced were far worse than depicted in the movie.
		Father Damien did not go to the leper colony just care for their bodies, although he did so tirelessly.
	www.amazon.com /Molokai-Father-Damien-Paul-Cox/dp/B00011Y1PI (2651 words)

	Molokai - A guide to the most hawaiian island - Photo Tour 4 Kalaupapa
		It was here that Father Damien spent his first nights on Molokai, sleeping on the ground under a hala tree next to the chapel.
		Father Damien added on to St. Philomena twice, more than doubling its size.
		In 1995, following the beatification ceremonies in Belgium, a relic of Father Damien was returned to Kalawao and was reinterred next to the church.
	visitmolokai.com /tour4.html (557 words)

	Father Damien - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		and Blessed Damien of Molokai (January 3, 1840 - April 15, 1889), was a Flemish Catholic missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who is revered primarily by Hawaii residents and [Christians for having dedicated his life in service to the lepers of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
		On December 1, 2005, Father Damien was chosen as the Greatest Belgian of all time by the Flemish VRT.
		Bishop Maigret presented Damien to the colonists as andquot;one who will be a father to you, and who loves you so much that he does not hesitate to become one of you; to live and die with you.andquot; The settlement was surrounded by an impregnable mountain ridge.
	www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Father_Damien (2105 words)

	Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii - Father Damien.
		Taken after Damien had constructed most of the houses seen here, this photo shows the stark, barren peninsula and settlement at Kalawao in the 1880s.
		A most dedicated and driven man, Father Damien did more than simply administer the faith: he built homes, churches and coffins; arranged for medical services and funding from Honolulu, and became a parent to his diseased wards.
		In 1977, Pope Paul VI declared Father Damien to be venerable, the first of three steps that lead to sainthood.
	www.visitmolokai.com /kala.html (1134 words)

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