Popularly known as Father Damien, St. Damien de Veuster was a nineteenth-century Belgian missionary to Hawai'i. He volunteered to be sent to Molokai, where lepers were quarantined. He himself caught the disease, and died in 1889, at the age of 49. He was beatified in 1995 and became a canonized saint in the Catholic Church in 2009.
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- Father Damien (Joseph de Veuster) Biography of the Belgian missionary priest to the leper colony on Molokai. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Damien the Leper Lengthy biography.
- Damien, Priest, Missionary, and Martyr Brief biography. With prayer in traditional and contemporary language.
- Wikipedia: Father Damien Biography and discussion of his legacy.
- St Jozef Damien De Veuster Biography from the Vatican web site, on the occasion of his canonization.
- National Statuary Hall Collection: Father Damien Photo of a stylized bronze sculpture, donated by the state of Hawaii; short biography.