Father Damien

October 30, 1863 Damien starts his four-month voyage to the Hawaiian Islands. He arrives in March of 1864. The ship takes him to the city of Honolulu on the Island of Oahu. Honolulu was a city with a busy port and many buildings.

A few years later Father Damien moves to Kalaupapa Peninsula to start the bulk of his missionary work. The first night Damien spent the night under a pandanus tree. (A pandanus tree is sometimes called the screw pine, has long roots which raise the trunk three or four feet above the ground l

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1936- Damien’s body is returned to Belgium for a state funeral. Damien would go on to do some more things on the Island to help the leprocy victims, until he would become a victim himself. It gave them something to do, and it added to the food supply. All of the little huts were ripped apart.

One of the hardest things about working in the leprocy colony was the smell. The government seemed to ignore him, until a typhoon hit Molokai in late 1879. The people would try their best to burry them, but they could only make shallow graves. Finally Damien got the pipes that he asked for and the colony had fresh water.

1969- Damien’s statue is placed in Washington D. He needed medicines, bandages, and medical instruments.

There was so much to be done that Damien didn’t know where to start. The chapel seemed abandoned so the first thing that Damien did was to clean the chapel. It forms a cave like shelter beneath the tree.

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