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FATHER DAMIEN AND THE BELLS by Arthur & Elizabeth Odell Sheehan

FATHER DAMIEN AND THE BELLS

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Pub Date: Sept. 1st, 1957
ISBN: 1586170333
Publisher: Farrar, Straus-Vision

A volume in the Vision Books series, this illustrated Catholic juvenile tells the heroic and poignant story of Father Damien, the saintly and courageous Belgian missioner of the 19th century who lived among the lepers at Molokai, contracted leprosy himself, and effected improvement of deplorable local conditions. Crisp narration of swift events tells of admirable compassion and saintly heroism.