Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (born 1840)

Father Damien

Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)

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.