Tag Archives: Blessed Damien the Leper
Hawaian Boy Scouts to Attend Father Damien’s October Canonization
We have a vibrant Boy Scout troop here at Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire. On our website I’ve posted two articles about two exemplary Catholic Eagle Scouts in which I promoted Francis Parater and Charles Anthony Francis Untz as good candidates for a future Boy Scout patron saint. It seems like every time I see a news story about the Scouts it’s an … More →
Bluegrass Belgian: Kentucky’s Missionary Dynamo, Father Charles Nerinckx
“Mitte Belgas” (send Belgians), implored Saint Francis Xavier in a letter written from India to his Father General, Saint Ignatius Loyola. The Indian mission of the East required religious who were not only proven in virtue but strong in physical constitution. Belgian priests almost always fit the bill. In later centuries, especially the nineteenth, this one country, no bigger than the state of Maryland, was … More →
Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate for Blessed Damien of Molokai
I had heard of Stevenson’s defense of Father Damien many years ago, but only recently came across the actual letter that he wrote to the Rev. Dr. Hyde, the Blessed’s unworthy calumniator. Pope John Paul II beatified Father Damien de Veuster in 1995. His feast day, May 10, is a state holiday in Hawaii. An interesting bit of Americana-Catolica, I have posted the quite lengthy … More →
