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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Belgian Christian missionaries, Belgian Christian monks, Belgian Latter Day Saints, Belgian Protestants, Belgian bishops, Belgian priests, Belgian saints, Leopold I of Belgium, Father Damien, Ferdinand Verbiest, Juliana of Liege, Saint Servatius, Helier, Philippe Couplet, Pierre-Jean De Smet, Cornelius Jansen, Guido de Bres, Theophile Meerschaert, Johan Bonny, Abel of Reims, Charles I, Count of Flanders, Simona Noorenbergh, Charles A. Didier, Boudewijn Bouckaert, Aibert, Gommar DePauw, Xavier de Merode, Eleutherius Winance, Leo-Raymond de Neckere, Oscar Sevrin, Amandina of Schakkebroek, Paul Goethals, Saint Ghislain, Antoine Mostaert, Vindicianus, Jean Cuvelier, Lutgardis, Chrysolius, Saint Drogo, Guy of Anderlecht, Yvette of Huy, Idesbald, Saint Piatus, Albert of Louvain, Himelin, Mutien-Marie Wiaux, Rimbert, Jan van Cauwelaert, Charles de la Croix, Gerard of Brogne, Placide Tempels, Domitian of Huy, Gummarus, Boniface of Brussels, Jean Delvaux, Luc Alfons de Hovre, Wilfried Decoo, Waltrude, Philippe Pierson, Marie of Oignies, Michel Schooyans, Gondulphus of Berry, Saint Hadelin, Pharailde, Libert of Saint-Trond, Landrada, Relindis of Maaseik, Valentinus Paquay, Adele Bayer, Victor Scheppers, Martin of Tongres, Celsa and Nona, Godwin of Stavelot, Arnoul of Cysoing. Excerpt: Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. (Dutch: or; January 3, 1840 - April 15, 1889), 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 ...