Lepers of Molokai

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Christianity - Biographies

Authors: Charles Warren Stoddard In Year : 15

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Lepers of Molokai

1 - Prologue, Chapters 1-3
2 - Chapters 4-6
3 - Chapters 7-9
4 - Chapters 10-12
5 - Chapters 13-15, Epilogue

This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in that desolate place, waiting for death to release them from a most intense form of physical and mental suffering. Fr. Damien, born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. He won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (Hansen's disease), who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the remote island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He, himself, contracted and died of this dreaded disease after caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the people in the colony for sixteen years. (Adapted from Wikipedia)