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	Father Damien
		Father Damien was born Joseph de Veuster in Tremeloo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840.
		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.
		The statue’s design is typical of the sculptor’s work; she is known for her portraits with faces, hands, and feet attached to large blocks of wood.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/damien.cfm (404 words)

	Father Damien Statue
		The Father Damien Statue, also called the Blessed Damien of Molokai Statue, is the centerpiece of the entrance to the Hawaii State Capitol and the Hawaii State Legislature in Honolulu, Hawaii.
		Father Damien is considered one of the preeminent heroes of Hawaii.
		In Catholicism, Father Damien is the spiritual patron of the outcast and those afflicted with AIDS and HIV.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/f/fa/father_damien_statue.html (407 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)

	American Saints
		Damien as he lay dying on the floor with only a straw mattress, a pillow and a single blanket to keep him warm.The doctor, not knowing he had taken a picture of a one-day saint of the Catholic Church, knew that Father Damien had but a short time to live.
		Damien was ready to be the first to go and on May 10, 1873, they had their first priest.The Board of Health had been conducting a strict isolation and segregation policy to keep leprosy under control.
		Damien saw the first hand horror of the disease by the horrible smell of rotting flesh as swarms of worms bared the intestines and ribs of the victims.
	www.allformary.org /AmericanSaints/leper.htm (2092 words)

	Molokai: The Story of Father Damian (David Wenham) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His father, a small farmer, sent him to a college at Braine-le-Comte, to prepare for a commercial profession; but as a result of a mission given by the Redemptorists in 1858, Joseph decided to become a monk.
		What this bio doesn't mention is that the hardest fight Father Damien had to fight was not against the poverty and disease of these abandoned people, but against the greed, denial and obstinacy of the catholic bishops and the government.
		Father Damien finally prevailed when the shameful conditions on Molokai could no longer be hidden from the world.
	fanzone50.com /DW/FtrDamien.html (479 words)

	Damien Memorial High School - Father Damien deVeuster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damien Memorial High Schools is proud to be named after one of Hawaii's--and the world's--greatest humanitarians, Father Damien deVeuster, the Apostle of Molokai.
		Father Damien was one of two outstanding citizens of Hawaii recognized by the State Legislature in 1965 to be worthy of commemoration in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. A copy of the same bronze statue of Damien graces our State Capitol.
		Father Damien is now the subject of canonization as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
	lani.damien.edu /damien/damien.html (1075 words)

	Father Damien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Father Damien was a Roman Catholic missionary who helped lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokaʻi 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Father_Damien (2064 words)

	Father Damien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Father Damien, seen here with the Kalawao Girls Choir during the [[1870s, took on the role of priest and doctor to lepers in settlement colonies.]] On May 10, 1873, Damien arrived at the secluded settlement at Kalaupapa.
		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.
	father-damien.iqnaut.net (1822 words)

	Damien High School - Campus Ministry
		Joseph de Veuster, known throughout the world as Father Damien, was born on January 3, 1840, at Tremeloo, (not far from Louvain) Belgium.
		Damien, not yet ordained, begged to be allowed to take his brother's place, for which permission was granted.
		They were no longer those who society had conveniently chosen to forget, because Damien has opened the eyes of the world to the needs and sufferings of millions of lepers and had thereby stirred many to the generous support of work on their behalf.
	www.damien-hs.edu /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=46 (991 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : May 10, 2006 : Bl. Damien Joseph de Veuster, priest
		Father Damien is the spiritual patron of lepers, outcasts, and those with HIV/AIDS, and of the State of Hawaii.
		Father Damien was above all, a witness of the love of God for His people.
		In Father Damien, the Church proposes an example to all those who find sense for their life in the Gospel and who wish to bring the Good News to the poor of our time.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2006-05-10 (1445 words)

	HawaiiNews.com: Reps urge greater respect for Kamehameha statue
		The Kamehameha statue in Statuary Hall — a replica of a pair of statues located in Kapa`au on the Big Island and in front of the Hawai`i Supreme Court building in Honolulu — has apparently been the subject of jokes made by Capitol guides and building staff.
		The statue was donated to the Capitol by the state in 1969, and is today one of 97 statues of prominent people selected to represent the various states.
		Hawaii's other statue depicts Father Damien, which is located in the House connecting corridor on the Capitol's first floor.
	www.hawaiinews.com /archives/national/000184.shtml (1526 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin News /2005/01/07/
		The Father Damien statue fronting the state Capitol was draped in leis on May 10, the feast day of Blessed Damien in the Catholic calendar.
		"Father Emilio has said we will have to reopen the case because we need to get very clear and more positive testimony from the witnesses that her prayers were to Damien, her belief was that Damien interceded for her cure," Wood said.
		Although the story of Damien gained worldwide attention even during his life, with writer Robert Louis Stevenson one of his earliest fans, the sainthood cause languished without attention for decades, in part because of politics in the Sacred Hearts religious order, which wanted its founder to be named a saint first.
	starbulletin.com /2005/01/07/news/story4.html (769 words)

	NewStandard: 10/19/98
		In 1873, Father Damien asked the church to assign him to Molokai, which had become an island for thousands of Hawaiian lepers -- that is, those who did not drown after being thrown overboard by boat crews unwilling to dock close to shore.
		"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.
		Mother Teresa, it is said, once put in a request for Father Damien's sainthood with Pope John Paul II and was reminded three miracles must be performed.
	www.s-t.com /daily/10-98/10-19-98/c01lo077.htm (703 words)

	BEACHES ETC Molokai Hawaii Information
		Father Damien, a Belgian priest came to Kalaupapa in 1873, planning to stay only a few weeks.
		Damien's crude wooden church, St. Philomena's, stands near the settlement's old cemetery where a solemn monument marks the martyr's gravesite.
		FATHER DAMIEN'S STATUE-built in memory of Father Damien de Vuester whose missionary work among the victims of Hansen's Disease was renowned through out the world, this statue stands in a grassy glade on the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula on Molokai's north shore.
	www.beachesetc.com /Molokai.htm (783 words)

	NewStandard: 12/4/99
		Father McElroy said a new outdoor shrine in honor of Blessed Damien was dedicated earlier this year on the grounds of the Wareham retreat center on the May 10 feast day.
		Father McElroy said Blessed Damien's name is perpetuated in such works of mercy as Damien Ministries in Washington, which works with AIDS patients and Damien's Pantry, located at Head of the Bay, Wareham, which serves the poor.
		Father Damien was buried on Molokoi but in the 1930s his body was removed to Belgium.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-99/12-04-99/a04he026.htm (711 words)

	The Exorcist (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trivia: The scene wherein Father Merrin asks Chris the child's middle name was cut for the 1973 release, but there is still the scene where Merrin exorcises Regan and uses her first, middle, and last names.
		Father Karras (Jason Miller) is a priest torn by conflict.
		She is always there but for all the horror she witnesses, Winn appears too bland and emotionless and her performance is probably the weakest in the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0070047 (1725 words)

	Holy Cross Catholic Church:: History
		Father Juncker who served the early years of Holy Cross, later became the first bishop of Alton, Illinois (presently the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois).
		By 1843 when the first resident pastor, Father William Schonat, arrived, the small Saint Remigius Chapel, measuring fifty by thirty feet, was too small to accommodate the growing number of Catholics moving to Columbus.
		It was decided to build the present church in 1844 and at the request of Father Schonat, to dedicate the Church to the Holy Cross.
	www.holycrosscatholic.com /pages/history.htm (1201 words)

	A KING’S STATUE MULTIPLIES
		Curiously, the first statue of the king was conceived to mark the centennial of the “discovery” of Hawai‘i by Captain James Cook.
		Workmen poured the cement base for the new statue on a rise called Ainakea in the Kohala District, but the cement hadn’t hardened enough by the time King Kalakaua arrived for the unveiling, so the statue was suspended over the pedestal from a sling under its arms attached to a crane.
		The unveiling on April 15, 1969, was accompanied by the blowing of a conch shell, a chanter, kahili bearers and the presentation of leis.
	www.coffeetimes.com /king.htm (1230 words)

	Father Damien Statue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Father Damien Statue stands in front of the Hawaii State Capitol, greeting all its visitors.
		The Father Damien Statue details the scars of leprosy on his face, a disfigured arm in a sling, a cane and broad-brimmed hat worn by Hawaiian missionaries.
		Other statues of Father Damien are located in the United State capitol building as well as in Belgium, in the cities of Brussels, Leuven and Tremelo, his place of birth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Father_Damien_Statue (464 words)

	Congressman Ed Case - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The King Kamehameha statue, which is a replica of the Kamehameha statues outside the current Hawai`i Supreme Court and in Kapa`au on the Island of Hawai`i, is one of two statues that were given by the State of Hawai`i in 1969 to Congress.
		After repeated reports of Congressional staff, including one who was caught on a home video on July 11th, explaining to tourists from their home states that the reason for the statue’s location stems from punishment for being scantily clad, Case and Abercrombie told the Architect that the depiction was inaccurate and highly insulting.
		The Kamehameha statue is located in an isolated area, reportedly for structural reasons because it is the heaviest statue in Statuary Hall.
	wwwc.house.gov /case/press_releases/200366.html (1469 words)

	The Reverend Vincent Capodanno Foundation Guest Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I am asking Father Capodannop's intercession for my son who is deeply steeeped in mortal sin.Iask that he be brought to true contrition and amends his life.
		I met Father Mode about 1 1/2 years ago when he spoke at a Marine Corps birthday breakfast that I coorganized for former and retired Marines and Navy in Vienna, VA. As a cradle Catholic, I was and continue to be inspired by Father Mode's story of Father Capodanno.
		Father Capodanno was such a spiritual, and compassionate man, and truly lived the life of Christ.
	www.father-capodanno.org /Father_Capodanno_GuestMain.html (6349 words)

	Father Damien -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Damien took up his brother's dream as his own and went in his place on a mission abroad.
		Damien Hirst (born 1965 in Bristol) is a British artist and probably the most famous of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs).
		Damien Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/53/father-damien.html (1386 words)

	screenplay for "The Exorcist"
		When Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair), a young girl, becomes demonically possessed, a superimposed image of this statue appears onscreen with her, showing that the discovery of the statue is the source of her state of demonic possession.
		Father Damien Karras's (Jason Miller) attempts to return Regan to a state of physical and psychological normalcy are depicted in three stages: the possession, the investigation, and the exorcism.
		In the second stage, the investigation, Father Karras investigates the nature of Regan's illness, trying to determine if she is indeed truly possessed by a demon.
	www.scriptologist.com /Magazine/Tips/The_Exorcist_/the_exorcist_.html (480 words)

	Father Damien
		The Reverend Joseph Damien de Veuster is one of Hawaii's most illustrious citizens.
		Father Damien's voluntary sojourn among the lepers of Molokai, ministering to their physical and spiritual needs, has shown him to be one of the great-hearted humanitarians of all time.
		In 1936, at the request of the Belgian government, his body was exhumed and returned to his homeland.
	www.sunshinehelicopters.com /maui/molokai/fatherdamien.html (317 words)

	Father Damien
		Father Damien, the name in religion of Joseph de Veuster, a Belgian missionary, was born at Tremeloo, near Louvain, on the 3rd of January 1840.
		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.
		A statue of Father Damien is in the U.S. Capitol.
	www.nndb.com /people/949/000096661 (319 words)

	Oahu : Walking Tours : Walking Tour 3 \| Frommers.com
		The statue is frequently draped in leis in recognition of Father Damien's humanitarian work.
		The statue of Kamehameha I was cast by Thomas Gould in 1880 in Paris.
		A third statue (all three are very different, but they were supposedly all cast from the same mold) was sent to Washington, D.C., when Hawaii became a state in 1959.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/oahu/0009020035.html (2478 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| The Omen, Damien: Omen II and The Final Conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Baylock tries to keep the Thorns from taking Damien with them to a wedding, for she knows how the kid will react to being in or even near a church -- indeed, he starts screaming his head off before the Thorns can even get out of the car.
		Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor, whom I bet turned into a real cutie once he hit puberty) is now at military school in Chicago, with his blond and non-evil cousin, Mark (Lucas Donat).
		Damien is a ward of his father's brother, Richard Thorn (William Holden: The Bridge on the River Kwai) and his wife, Ann (Lee Grant: Mulholland Drive), and they all live like Kennedys, with an army of servants in gray uniforms, and endless snowmobiling, football, winter barbecues, and fireworks to celebrate birthdays.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/014q/omentrilogy.shtml (1273 words)

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