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See also:DAMIEN, See also:FATHER , the name in See also:religion of See also:JOSEPH DE VEUSTER (1840-1889), Belgian missionary, was See also:born at Tremeloo, near See also:Louvain, on the 3rd of See also:January 184o. He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth See also:year entered the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, joining the Society of the Sacred See also:Heart of Jesus and See also:Mary (also known as the Picpus See also:Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion. In See also:October 1863, while he was still in See also:minor orders, he went out as a missionary to the Pacific Islands, taking the See also:place of his See also:brother, who had been prevented by an illness. He reached See also:Honolulu in See also:March 1864, and was ordained See also:priest in Whitsuntide of that year. Struck with the sad See also:condition of the lepers, whom it was the practice of the Hawaian See also:government to deport to the See also:island of Molokai, he conceived an See also:earnest See also:desire to mitigate their See also:lot, and in 1873 volunteered to take spiritual See also:charge of the See also:settlement at Molokai. Here he remained for the See also:rest of his See also:life, with occasional visits to Honolulu, until he became stricken with leprosy in 1885. Besides attending to the spiritual needs of the lepers, he managed, by the labour of his own hands and by appeals to the Hawaian government, to improve materially the See also:water-See also:supply, the dwellings, and the victualling of the settlement. For five years he worked alone; subsequently other See also:resident priests from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time assisted him. He succumbed to leprosy on the 15th of See also:April 1889. Some See also:ill-considered imputations upon Father Damien by a Presbyterian See also:minister produced a memorable See also:tract by See also:Robert See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Stevenson (An Open See also:Letter to the Rev. Dr See also:Hyde, 1890).
See also lives by E. See also:Clifford (1889) and Fr. Pamphile (1889).
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