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Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement
Book by Jane. Buckingham; Palgrave, 2002
Subjects:	Imperialism--Health Aspects--India--History, Leprosy--Government Policy--India--History, Leprosy--India--History, Leprosy--Social Aspects--India--History, Medicine--India--History, Public Health--Political Aspects--India--History
...susceptible to the disease as Indians was remarkable in the climate of fear of European contagion of leprosy following the death of Fr Damien of Molokai in 1889. British attention to the racial distribution of leprosy was not only an aspect of the broader need to know...

Strangers Should Not Whisper
Book by Jan-Albert Goris; L.B. Fischer, 1945
Subjects:	Europe--Civilization, United States--Civilization, World War, 1939-1945--Belgium
...But I Despise It" 127 4. Birth of the Saxophone 132 5. Damien* the Leper 138 6. Ulenspiegl 144 7. Death Came to the...*

Papal Pronouncements: A Guide : 1740-1978
Book by Claudia Carlen; Pierian Press, 1990
Subjects:	Papal Documents--Bibliography
...9-12. 16:936 1969 Jan 13 Appreciant de longue To Claude Musnier, editor-in...16:972 1969 Apr 7 La celebration de To all of good will: proper use of communications...11. 16:984 1969 Apr 26 Lelite de lelite To Gabriel Cardinal Garrone and...

Healing Bodies, Saving Souls: Medical Missions in Asia and Africa
Book by David Hardiman; Rodopi, 2006
Subjects:	Missions, Medical--Africa, Missions, Medical--Asia
...founded in 1874; by 1893 it was running ten leper asylums. Leprosy received a lot of publicity in 1889 when Father Damien de Veuster, a Belgium missionary who worked with leprosy sufferers in Hawaii, died from the disease. There were calls in...

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Vol. 3
Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson; P. F. Collier and Son, 1902
Subjects:	History, Modern--19th Century
...two roads toward Magenta. At last an aide-de-camp brought the news that MacMahon expected...had recently made her debut in Santiago de Cuba, appeared for the first time at Castle...Montauban won his subsequent title of Comte de Palikao. Meanwhile the British flanked the...

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Welcome to Paradise
Magazine article by Ed Rampell; E, Vol. 7, July 1996
Subjects:	Ecotourism--Hawaii, Molokai--Environmental aspects, Travel industry--Environmental aspects
...of Molokais cultural/natural tour is Damiens Church. Damien de Veuster was the Belgian priest who helped the sick in the region...1873 until he himself succumbed to disease in 1889. The Damien Tour includes a cold cut lunch in Judd Park at scenic...

To Serve Is to Reign
Magazine article by Gerald F. Kreyche; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 136, September 2007
Subjects:	Altruism (Human behavior)--Evaluation, Altruism--Evaluation, Philanthropy--Evaluation, Volunteerism--Evaluation
...die without sympathy. However, a Belgium priest, Fr. Damien (Joseph de Veuster) asked his religious order to let him serve the leper...He seeks to bring our elders back into society by de-institutionalizing nursing homes, breaking them into...

Priest to Be Canonised for 'Curing' Lung Cancer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 8, 2007
Subjects:	Lung cancer
...lung cancer 10 years ago meansthat Blessed Damien de Veuster can now be made a saint. The five-member medical...hugecult that has grown around Blessed Damien since his death. Blessed Damien is already considered patron saint of leprosy...

Bike, Eat, Snorkel Your Way throughout Stay on Maui
Newspaper article by Candyce H. Stapen; The Washington Times, March 18, 2000
Subjects:	Molokai
...through the surf to land. Father Damien de Veuster arrived in 1874. He took up smoking...came in 1888. Until she and Father Damien died, they served the lepers, and...peninsula. Guides tales of how Father Damien cut holes in the church floor so...

The 'Good Shepherd' Image Comforts and Challenges Us
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 15, 2000
Subjects:	Jesus Christ
...if any would go to the island. A priest named Father Damien de Veuster said he would, and arrived in 1873. He was 33, a happy...in his homily, he began very simply, "We lepers." Damien has been a powerful figure of a good shepherd in modern...

Vatican Endorses Miracle
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 10, 2008
Subjects:	Cancer treatment, Cancer--Care and treatment, News agencies, The Associated Press
...when the priest is canonized, which is expected early next year. She plans to go to Rome for the ceremony. Damien, born Joseph de Veuster, arrived in the islands in 1864. Nine years later he began ministering to leprosy patients on Molokai, where...

Veuster, Damien De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VEUSTER, DAMIEN DE see Damien, Father . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Damien, Father
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DAMIEN, FATHER da me n, damyaN (Damien de Veuster), 1840 89, Belgian missionary priest, originally named Joseph de Veuster. He went to Hawaii (1864) as a...Attention was called to Father Damien by a tract in his defense by R...

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