St. Damien of Molokai (1840–89) provided spiritual, physical, and emotional comfort to the colony established at Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai for people with Hansen’s disease (leprosy). At the time people with this debilitating, incurable disease were ostracized as “unclean,” kept out of society’s sight, and often offered little treatment. Father Damien improved housing and water and food supplies at the colony and founded two orphanages there.
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