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Oct 27, 1980 · Father Damien: The Leper Priest: Directed by Steve Gethers. With Ken Howard, William Daniels, Mike Farrell, Wilfrid Hyde-White.
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- Biography, Drama
- Steve Gethers
- 1980-10-27
Read more about this incredible priest in The Spirit of Father Damien. Drawing from Fr. Damien’s own correspondence and the Vatican archives, author Jan de Volder presents an accurate and vivid portrait of a priest who became another Christ to those he served.
Father Damien aided the colony by teaching, painting houses, organizing farms, and organizing the construction of chapels, roads, hospitals, and churches. He also dressed residents, dug graves, built coffins, ate food by hand with lepers, shared pipes with them, and lived with the lepers as equals.
St. Damien of Molokai (born January 3, 1840, Tremelo, Belgium—died April 15, 1889, Molokai, Hawaii [U.S.]; canonized October 11, 2009; feast day May 10) was a Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers and became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The dramatization of the life of the 19th century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony cast Ken Howard in the title role as a last-minute replacement for David Janssen, who had just died and to whose memory this film is dedicated.
- Steven Gethers
- Yvonne De La Vega
Oct 10, 2009 · The story of Damien's path to sainthood, and how he dedicated his life to a community of Hawaii residents with leprosy. Regardless of religious background, the life’s work of Molokai’s beloved priest has inspired many, including HIV/AIDS sufferers.
May 9, 2022 · Canonized as a saint in 2009, Father Damien was designated the patron saint of people with leprosy, or Hansen’s disease. This statue of Saint Damien of Molokai greets visitors to Hawaii’s ...
