Feast May 10
Saint Father Damien
Religious founder, patron of People with Leprosy · Feast May 10
Biography
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.
Feast day
May 10
Patronage
- People with Leprosy
Birth date
1840-01-03 Tremelo, Brabant, Kingdom of Belgium
Death date
1889-04-15 Kalaupapa, Moloka i, Kingdom of Hawaii
Canonization status
Canonized
Canonization date
11 October 2009
Canonized by
Pope Benedict XVI
Feast month
5
Wikidata qid
Q232785
Feast day of month
10