Father Damien

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January 3, 1840, Josef de Veuster is born in Tremeloo, Belgium. Only nineteen year's later Josef de Veuster joins the Picpus Fathers of Louvain as a novice. (A novice is a member of a religious order who has not taken any final vows.) Shortly after joining Picpus Fathers, Joseph se Veuster's name is changed to, as we know him, Father Damien.

October 30, 1863 Damien starts his four-month voyage to the Hawaiian Islands. He arrives in March of 1864. The ship takes him to the city of Honolulu on the Island of Oahu. Honolulu was a city with a busy port and many buildings.

A few years later Father Damien moves to Kalaupapa Peninsula to start the bulk of his missionary work. The first night Damien spent the night under a pandanus tree. (A pandanus tree is sometimes called the screw pine, has long roots which raise the trunk three or four feet above the ground l

Damien got the healthier men to clear patches of land and plant crops. It gave them something to do, and it added to the food supply. But every day people were dying. The people would try their best to burry them, but they could only make shallow graves. That meant that wild pigs would dig up the bodies and scatter their bones. So Damien made up his mind that everyone would get a decent burial and a grave. In the first six years, Damien made coffins and dug graves for 1,600 people.

1908- Dapsone, an anti-leprocy drug is discovered in Germany.

1980- President Jimmy Carter makes Kalaupapa, Hawaii a national historic park.

1969- Damien's statue is placed in Washington D.C.

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