An island of central Hawaii between Oahu and Maui. The Belgian missionary Father Damien established a leper colony on the northern coast in 8 '0.

美国夏威夷中部一岛屿，位于瓦胡岛和毛伊岛之间。比利时教士达米安于8 ' 0年在其北部海岸建立麻风病患者聚居者。

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After several years of working in the colony, he himself developed leprosy. Father Damien died in eighteen eighty-nine.

在该麻风病人聚居地进行了几年的工作之后，他本人也感染了麻风病。

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Father Damien was born Joseph De Veuster in Belgium.

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Father Damien died in eighteen eighty-nine.

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The story takes shape in letters to the Vatican under the name of Father Damien, concerning supposed miracles at Little No Horse.

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Agnes fetches up on a river bank beside the corpse of Father Damien Modeste, a priest drowned on his way to an Ojibwe mission.

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The parishioners' feuding is so hard to follow that readers may give up before the moving description of what proves to be Father Damien's own moral trial.

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