A woman from Molokai, Hawaii, attends a mass in honor of Father Damien near his birthplace in Tremelo, Belgium, Sunday Oct. 4, 2008. The mass attended by the Belgian royals and government as well as the bishop of Honolulu among others, celebrated a 19th century local hero Sunday, who cared for leprosy sufferers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai until the disease took his life in 1889, and will become a saint for his work. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

A woman from Molokai, Hawaii, attends a mass in honor of Father Damien near his birthplace in Tremelo, Belgium, Sunday Oct. 4, 2008. The mass attended by the Belgian royals and government as well as the bishop of Honolulu among others, celebrated a 19th century local hero Sunday, who cared for leprosy sufferers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai until the disease took his life in 1889, and will become a saint for his work.

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