Optional Memorial
Saint Damien de Veuster
- Feast day
- May 10
- Patron of
- leprosy patients and outcasts
- Origin
- Belgian
Life
Damien de Veuster was a priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts who voluntarily ministered to the leprosy colony on Molokai, Hawaii, for sixteen years until he himself died of the disease.
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