Saint Damien Of Molokai
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St Damien Of Molokai
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Author : Margaret Bunson
language : en
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
Release Date : 2009-08-31
St Damien Of Molokai written by Margaret Bunson and has been published by Our Sunday Visitor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-31 with Religion categories.
Saint Damien of Molokai is the riveting account of how a humble Congregation of the Sacred Hearts priest found a vocation in caring for lepers that led him to his canonization in October 2009. Hawaii normally brings idyllic scenes of blue skies and white beaches to mind. But Hell invaded Paradise when the incurable disease leprosy was discovered there. An 1865 law segregated lepers by forcibly exiling individuals--even children--to the island of Molokai. It was onto these forlorn shores that Father Damien de Veuster stepped in the spring of 1873. In an age in which an increasing number of people suffer their own personal exile on account of illness, handicap, or emotional distress, the shining example of Father Damien shows the true power of one person and how, when anchored in God's love, one person can impact the world--even among the horrors of decay and slow death. In so doing, he brought hope to the hopeless, ironically losing his own life for serving theirs.
Molokai
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Author : Hilde Eynikel
language : en
Publisher: Saint Pauls/Alba House
Release Date : 1999
Molokai written by Hilde Eynikel and has been published by Saint Pauls/Alba House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
" ... Story of a Belgian priest ... who single-handedly changed the lives and fates of the lepers of a Hawaiian leper colony in the nineteenth century."--Cover.
Holy Man Father Damien Of Molokai
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Author : Gavan Daws
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Holy Man Father Damien Of Molokai written by Gavan Daws and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Hawaii categories.
The Spirit Of Father Damien
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Author : Jan de Volder
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Spirit Of Father Damien written by Jan de Volder and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 De Volder sifted through Father Damien's personal correspondence as well as the Vatican archives. With careful and even-handed expertise, De Volder follows Father Damien's transformation from the stout, somewhat haughty missionary of his youth, bounding from Europe to Hawaii and straight into seemingly tireless priestly work, to the humble and loving shepherd of souls who eventually succumbed to the same disease that ravaged his flock. De Volder finds that--as spiritual father, caretaker, teacher, and advocate--Father Damien accomplished many heroic feats for these poor outcasts. Yet the greatest gift he gave them was their transformation from a disordered, lawless throng exiled in desperate anarchy into a living community built on Jesus Christ, a community in which they learned to care for one another. Every generation seems to have its own image of this world-famous priest. Already during his life on Molokai and at his death in 1889, many considered him a holy man. Even today, in the highly secularized Western world, he is widely admired. In 2005 his native Belgium honored him with the title "the greatest Belgian" in polling conducted by their public broadcasting service. Statues honor his memory in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and at the entrance to the Hawaiian State Capitol in Honolulu. In 1995, in the presence of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II beatified him in Brussels, Belgium; and in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI canonized him in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today Father Damien is the unofficial patron of outcasts and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS. Illustrated with many photos. De Volder contends that the common thread running through the saint's life, the spirit of Father Damien that so speaks to the world, is at once uniquely Christian, fully human, and as important today as ever before.
Damien Of Molokai
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Author : Mary Quinlan
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-02-27
Damien Of Molokai written by Mary Quinlan and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-27 with categories.
Let us consider the early life of Joseph Damien de Veuster: "Every age, happily, has its heroes. Some die for country; others for a cause; some have sacrificed themselves for the many, others for an individual friend or stranger; but the sacrifice of Joseph Damien De Veuster was not as these. For though he died that others might live, his object was not so much to preserve the life of the body as to ensure the salvation of the soul. For that alone did he, in the flower of his manhood and the glory of his days, go down to a living death in the lazaretto, pouring out the riches of his health and strength in the service of the stricken, and wrestling singlehanded with the spirits of darkness for the souls made reckless by despair. And this superhuman labour of love was to continue in health and sickness for sixteen years, even until he, too, fell a victim to the disease, and experienced in his own person the dissolution of the grave. "Before a sacrifice so awful, so complete, so absolute, the world held its breath. It was greater than heroism, better than bravery. It was the defying of death and the challenging of hell. And for what ?-that he might save the souls of sinners." Father Damien wrote home to his parents: " I have plenty of cares and troubles, my dear parents, still I am very happy. Our Bishop has just made over to me a new parish, a little larger than that of Tremeloo! It takes me quite a month to get round it. Here we cannot travel by rail, or by carriage, or on foot. The islanders rejoice when they see Kamiallo and me coming. I like them immensely, and would willingly give my life for them. . .. So I do not spare myself when it is a question of going to visit the sick, or any other persons seven or eight leagues distant." The life of Father Damien in the Sandwich Islands of Hawaii is inspiring and a must read in these days, when such self-sacrifice is rare.
Leper Priest Of Molokai
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Author : Richard Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Latitude 20
Release Date : 2000-07
Leper Priest Of Molokai written by Richard Stewart and has been published by Latitude 20 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of Father Damien De Veuster who arrived at Moloka'i's remote settlement in May of 1873 to become the first resident clergyman and part-time physician for the leper colony.
Holy Man
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Author : Gavan Daws
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1984-04-01
Holy Man written by Gavan Daws and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-01 with Religion categories.
"An absolutely fascinating book." --Washington Post "Beautifully written, deeply perceptive." --Los Angeles Times "Superb. The best account ever published of Father Damien and his long testing at Kalawao." --Honolulu Advertiser "History with a very special human face ... examines the evidence sensitively and evocatively." --Journal of Pacific History "May be the best biography of Damien yet written. Carefully researched and reported, the author¿s fascination with the man and the disease is transmitted to the reader." --Library Journal
St Damien Of Molokai
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Author : Margaret Bunson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
St Damien Of Molokai written by Margaret Bunson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Christian saints categories.
Saint Damien of Molokai is the riveting account of how a humble Congregation of the Sacred Hearts priest found a vocation in caring for lepers that led him to his upcoming canonization in October 2009.Hawaii normally brings idyllic scenes of blue skies and white beaches to mind. But Hell invaded Paradise when the incurable disease leprosy was discovered there. An 1865 law segregated lepers by forcibly exiling individuals--even children--to the island of Molokai. It was onto these forlorn shores that Father Damien de Veuster stepped in the spring of 1873.In an age in which an increasing number of people suffer their own personal exile on account of illness, handicap, or emotional distress, the shining example of Father Damien shows the true power of one person and how, when anchored in God's love, one person can impact the world--even among the horrors of decay and slow death. In so doing, he brought hope to the hopeless, ironically losing his own life for serving theirs.
Father Damien
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Author : Glynn MacNiven-Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08-23
Father Damien written by Glynn MacNiven-Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-23 with categories.
Aged 33, Fr Damien de Veuster left his mission parish to work among the lepers of Hawaii.
Father Damien
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Author : Edward Clifford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Father Damien written by Edward Clifford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Clergy categories.
An account of Jozef De Veuster, a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium known as Father Damien, the Leper Priest of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.