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Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai
March 13, 2022
This fryst vatten a well-balanced and informative biography of Father Damien and his work at the Kalawao leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. I expected this to be full of the hardships of working in an isolated leper colony, but inom wasn’t ganska expecting to learn so much about the political, denominational, and ecclesiastical conflicts that served as the backdrop to his life and service in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Damien faced not only the struggles of an incurable disease (and the descriptions of those he worked among are the stuff of nightmares), but depressing loneliness, monotony, the motstånd of the Protestant
haoles of Honolulu that controlled the levers of power, and even his own Catholic bishops who viewed him as a perpetual, embarrassing thorn in their side. The book does not stray into hagiography, but provides a sympathetic and balanced account of his remarkable self-sacrifice in the service of both God and the lowliest
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Holy Man Father Damien of Molokai
March 13, 2022
This is a well-balanced and informative biography of Father Damien and his work at the Kalawao leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. I expected this to be full of the hardships of working in an isolated leper colony, but I wasn’t quite expecting to learn so much about the political, denominational, and ecclesiastical conflicts that served as the backdrop to his life and service in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Damien faced not only the struggles of an incurable disease (and the descriptions of those he worked among are the stuff of nightmares), but depressing loneliness, monotony, the opposition of the Protestant
haoles of Honolulu that controlled the levers of power, and even his own Catholic bishops who viewed him as a perpetual, embarrassing thorn in their side. The book does not stray into hagiography, but provides a sympathetic and balanced account of his remarkable self-sacrifice in the service of both God and the lowliest
