FATHER DAMIEN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 7

FATHER DAMIEN.

<e y 1 ? f -• AMONG ji:* • LEPERS. Molokaij one .Vwrho'' endured and | which said the Eev. at|ißing iii» series of lives, atSt. Stephen's snatjio'n bat asavolun&c*iflee,he'flung himings fraught with tho Us«. ' doing so, Jiis e--'/ .was •fhe " Gross of , wotQd _ walk in the emme; ifi, too, ,would' u*di> e&T the' unqeemly do'it. ail for the a wj»i<sh,kepj; nothing air in one immortal fcer,Abetter known as ffas-born in, Belgium, UJ4Q,* The family into n was" large and poor. cl walk- 'alone:;inr 1 and' .became " 'MSp.% ,£atex n hi* mother read aloud -fro^i^'Jives of the.saints and the \ r j'He early practised 5 * bysaccit • a;plan^: ; WQOd £ejit hidden beneath on'a,s nights. iHis' sister had entered a corfyent, and'his L .'jftppfey fgr the 'priesthood. r Jf^sef,: however,, was. intended by: the - commercial rlif e. His were .towards "'religMini service he seemed ~ call from God. He ' ask J ei4iie^aw| > parents"' consent, saying: to duit the'world and ; state.'- »I iknow ! > r lit-*#, *K> v Mrtokak.. 1 " The consent given, and Joeef im- J pnediateljr entered'upon «irnovitiate at monastery. There he took 'Daihien. His time was ? tV |J ftiij' and quipt study? but days' weresbXPfc^: brflther; j who was to. |4as»~jpM ?to> -the - fission fields* h 'sick. Damfeft-pffered-to go in hisatea<L "Pe made hij»s J *sirefrelfa, and,„ as it/prflved; he was k?i ftp «e s Jus kindred again, He «• Honolulu On March 19th, 1864, .While ?»n: Ui - year. vOh • ordination, -p jSrioShodr hi -was put; in charge diatri^t' pf -Hawaii, His Enabled' him)to 0 acH*' 'oyer :jregi.94ia. * was &assx-i& fa w foK the prevalence •of !lepi!p|jiy ,the caused' him yarrow. On juaagy occasions,^saw the, between-husband and' Wife Mutdr-wttfcp* 1 children when • the 'carried _fnw"the, doomed, Victims, to the-island of Molokai. "He J Bwh# deplore tty> shortage , [ L fft *> (