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The Spirit of Father Damien: The Leper Priest-A Saint for Our Times

By Jan De Volder
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By Jan De Volder
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Father Damien, famous for his missionary work with exiled lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is finally Saint Damien. His sanctity took 120 years to become officially recognized, but between his death in 1889 and his canonization in 2009-amid creeping secularization and suspicion of the missionary spirit he so much embodied-Fr. Damien De Veuster never faded from the world's memory. What kept him there? What keeps him there now?.

To find an answer, Belgian historian and journalist Jan ...

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