
Résumé
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After sharing the life of the lepers of Molokai (Hawaii) for eleven years, Father Damien could not deny the signs: he himself had contracted the dreadful sickness. How did he face up to this reality, and what path did he follow during the last four years of his life from 1885 to 1889? This book answers these questions profoundly and frankly. Father Damien's rich correspondence before that last period paints the picture of a dynamic missionary, enterprising, even boisterous, at the beginning of his mission on the main island of Hawaii and during the years spent in Molokai among the lepers. But after becoming ill, and although he remained extremely active, Father Damien responds to the challenge of leprosy by attaining a deeper spirituality which allowed him to achieve, after a period of real despair, an authentic happiness that nothing could perturb. Jose De Veuster - the future Father Damien - was born in Flanders (Belgium) in 1840. At eighteen, he joined the congregation of the Pères des Sacrés-Coeurs de Picpus. After his ordination, he became a missionary on the Island of Hawaï. From 1873 onwards, he cared for lepers who had been deported to the island of Molokai, until he himself died of leprosy at the age of forty-nine, in 1889. Beatified by Pope John-Paul II in 1995, he will be canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Le Pere Damien |
Collection | Trésors christianisme |
Parution | 30/10/2008 |
Format | 13.5 x 19.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 164g |
EAN13 | 9782204088152 |
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