A Celebration Of Pain
June 12, 2013
"The Separating Sickness", Faher Damien, Hansen's disease, leprosy, Paul Brand, Rebecca Solnit2 Comments
In 1897 Father Damien, a Belgian, arrived at the leper colony in Molokai, Hawaii to minister to the sick. In 1884 he altered his Sunday sermon by beginning, not with his usual salutation, “You lepers…” but with a new one: “We lepers.” I remember weeping years ago when I came
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