Damien De Veuster, popularly known as Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, was a Belgian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colony in Molokaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii, from 1873 until his death in 1889.

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1840-01-03 Tremelo, Brabant, Kingdom of Belgium

1889-04-15 Kalaupapa, Moloka i, Kingdom of Hawaii

beatified

11 October 2009

Pope Benedict XVI

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