Father Damien

Father Damien

Hawai’i

Father Damien, also called St. Damien of Moloka’i, was born in Belgium, and served as a priest to people with leprosy, (now called Hansen’s disease) until his death of leprosy in 1889 on the quarantined settlement on Moloka’i Island.

This entity appears in the story “8. Bullying in Oceania”.