This video introduces eight of the “St. Damien Scouts” — nine Hawaiian Catholic Boy Scouts who will travel to Rome for the Oct. 11 canonization of Father Damien de Veuster.

Father Damien is famed for his 19th-century ministry to Hawaii’s leper colony of Molokai. Father Kamiano, as he was known to the Hawaiian lepers he helped, contracted leprosy himself after 12 years of service at the colony and died of the disease in 1889 at the age of 49.

The video was sent to us by Register subscriber Teresa Fredericks, whose son Bradley was one of the nine Scouts from the island of Oahu who were chosen to travel to Rome for the canonization. The mission of the boys will be to videotape the preparations for the canonization as well as the ceremony itself, and to interview Boy Scouts from other parts of the world who are also in attendance at the event. Their daily reports will be posted on the Internet.

Along with posting the video profiling the St. Damien Scouts at YouTube, supporters of their canonization pilgrimage have also posted this video of the life of Blessed Father Damien, with narration by the Boy Scouts who are going to Rome: