This is the true story of a Belgian priest -- young, healthy, and devout -- who almost single-handedly changed the lives and fates of the victims of Hansen's disease on Molokai in the 19th century and, indeed, of patients of leprosy throughout the world ever since. On June 4, 1995, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II who said of him that, in his life he "showed forth Christ's tenderness and mercy for every human being, revealing the beauty of that person's inner self which no illness, no deformity, no weakness can totally disfigure. He offered the lepers, who were condemned to a slow death [...
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