Man of Molokai (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Roos
- First Published: 1943
- Time of Work: 1840–1889
- Setting: Belgium and Hawaii
- Principal Characters: Father Damien de Veuster, Father Pamphile de Veuster, Frans, Bishop Louis Maigret, Joseph Dutton, Mother Marianne Kopp, Father Louis Conrardy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Missions or missionaries, Death or dying, Catholics or Catholic Church, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Biography, Leprosy, Religious life
- Locales: Hawaii, Belgium
Form and Content
In Man of Molokai: The Life of Father Damien, Ann Roos evokes the self-sacrifice and heroism of Father Damien, who volunteered to serve in the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai from 1873 until his death from leprosy in 1889. Effective treatments for leprosy (now called Hansen’s disease) were not discovered until the 1940’s. During Father Damien’s lifetime, this highly contagious disease was always fatal. Hawaiians diagnosed as suffering from Hansen’s disease were segregated from the general community and forced to live in Kalawao,...
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