How Two Future Saints Inspired a Writer — and a Princess
COMMENTARY: Robert Louis Stevenson and Princess Diana each found themselves transformed by encounters, direct or indirect, with St. Damien of Molokai and St. Teresa of Calcutta.
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St. Damien’s Birthplace Reopens: A Beacon of Faith and Service
The restored birthplace of St. Damien De Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, opens its doors with a new permanent exhibition celebrating the life of the ‘Apostle to the Lepers.’
Father Damien Was a Priest and a Man of Sacrifice
The closer one looks at the life of St. Damien of Molokai, the clearer it becomes that the mystery of the Holy Eucharist lay at the heart of this priest.
The 10th Station of the Cross and St. Damien’s Brag
“If the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor,” said St. Jerome, “the medicine cannot heal what it does not know.”
Don’t Know Much About Theology
The greatest irony of progressivism is its dogmatic non-dogmatism.
After AOC Decries Statue, Hawaiian Catholic Says St Damien ‘Gave His Life’ Serving Leper
St. Damien of Molokai was a religious priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who spent the last 16 years of his life caring for lepers in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
‘Molokai’ is an Inspirational Film for a Time of Pandemic
Fr. Damien’s Faith Shone Amid Great Crisis
Father Damien of Molokai and the Holy Face
It is a little-known fact that Father Damien labored to established perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament among his lepers.
Why Robert Louis Stevenson Gave a Piano and a Poem to St. Marianne Cope
Mother Marianne Cope is the patron of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, and the Hawaiian Islands. Her feast day is Jan. 23.
The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rev. Dr. Hyde
In 1890, Stevenson published his famous ‘Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu’ in defense of St. Damien of Molokai
