Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai by Gavan Daws

Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai

Gavan Daws

312 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion reflective slow-paced
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A powerful biography of the Catholic priest and his ministry from 1873 to 1889 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who were required to live under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the isl...

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