The missionary was sent to Hawaii to take care of the leper colony.
Saint Father Damien of Molokai was an apostle to the lepers in Hawaii and eventually died of the illness himself.
Lepers, or those infected with leprosy, were outcasts partly out of fear and partly out of necessity. Although rare, leprosy can be spread from person to person. Isolating lepers would thus prevent the vulnerable members of a population (as much as 5 percent) from contracting it. The fear element comes from both the physical appearance of lepers, and the fear of contracting leprosy.
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Julien Lepers's birth name is Ronan Lepers.
Father Damein helped the lepers of Kalaupapa leper colony. Before Father Damein arrived at the colony lepers were dropped of on the peninsula that is still inhabited on Molokai. The lepers then migrated to the base of the sea cliffs that stand over two hundred thousand feet high. Father Damein went of his own accord to the Kalaupapa leper colony and built houses, theaters, and churches for the lepers. After having contact with the lepers a mycrobacterium lepre (the germ that causes leprosy) was implanted in his skin and he came down with leprosy to die from it later.
Father Damien of Veuster was born and raised in Belgium but later devoted his life to working with lepers on the island of Molokai, Hawaii.
Julien Lepers was born on August 12, 1949, in Paris, France.
That out of the ten lepers only one came back to thank Jesus
Basically that is Jesus Christ who spent His time devoted to Serve God and helping the lepers who were considered outcasts. according to the law of Moses, lepers were considered unclean and therefore were not supposed to be in the public and were made to wear the bells on their necks and make sounds to alert people that they were present and people would run away because leprosy was considered contagious and so would make one unclean so JESUS came and welcomed the lepers and even healed them for example HE healed ten lepers and further on another leper
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They were the lepers.