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• Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, was born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order.
• He won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who had been placed under a government- sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• After sixteen years caring for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, he eventually contracted and died of the disease, and is widely considered a "martyr of charity".
• He is the nineteenth person elevated to sainthood (the ninth by the Roman Catholic Church) who had lived, worked, and died in what is now territory of the United States.[citation needed] In the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, Damien is considered a saint, one who is holy and worthy of public veneration.