Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
is a 1999 biographical film of Father Damien,
a Belgian priest working at the Kalaupapa Leprosy
Settlement on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
He won recognition for his ministry in the
Kingdom of Hawaii 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.
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,
resulting in his characterization as a "martyr of charity".
He was also known as the "leper priest".
Born~January 3, 1840, Wouters in the village of Tremelo
in Flemish Brabant, Belguim.
Died~April 15, 1889, (aged 49) Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii.