KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (KITV4) – Father Damien, also known as Saint Damien of Molokai, is being remembered this Good Friday. Damien died of leprosy on April 15, 1889, at the age of 49 at Kalawao. Father ...

This year, the Roman Catholic Church gave its highest honor to a man named Father Damien of Molokai. He was canonized as a saint back in October by Pope Benedict XXII. Damien was a simple man whose ...

WHEN I first flew over Molokai, the old battleground of Father Damien, and heard the airline stewardess say, “The Hansen’s disease settlement,” as she pointed down to the peninsula of Kalaupapa, I ...

Sunday evening I attended a screening of a preliminary cut of the documentary "The Soul of Kalaupapa." The film examines the ecumenical legacy of the leper's colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 6—The life and times of St. Damien of Molokai are being presented in blockbuster musical style in Belgium, his native country ...

Father Damien de Veuster was a Belgian priest who subjected himself to leprosy to minister to the lepers’ colony on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. He lived from 1840-89. (Courtesy Photo) Jozef de ...

Fr. Damien dedicated his life to the native Hawaiians he found suffering in exile on Molokai. When he arrived, there were very few structures in the area. Many people slept on mats, covered by only a ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock ...

Nine Boy Scouts and a Scout Master from Hawaii are traveling to the Vatican for the October 11 canonization of Bl. Damien de Veuster, the Belgian missionary who ministered to the Hawaiian leper colony ...