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Relic rides a canoe fit for a sovereign, made for a saint
Friday, October 30, 2009 (885 reads)

When the relic of St. Damien of Molokai is carried from the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace to Iolani Palace for a civic, interfaith ceremony on Nov. 1, it will ride the two ...

For the record: statements by the president, congress, the state
Friday, October 30, 2009 (767 reads)

I wish to express my deep admiration for the life of Blessed Damien de Veuster, who will be canonized on Sunday by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. I also want to ...

Bishop Silva's reflection: 16 years given Damien, us
Friday, October 30, 2009 (612 reads)

October 11, 2025. The 16th anniversary of the canonization of Father Damien. Since it is not St. Damien’s feast day (May 10), it is unlikely that many will even remembe...r

The relic’s travels: Detroit, Bay Area, Hawaii
Friday, October 30, 2009 (663 reads)

Hundreds filled the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit Oct. 13 for the reception of the relic of St. Damien of Molokai. The relic, a piece of his heel bone, ...

St. Damien’s relic returns to place of his first priestly assignment
Friday, October 30, 2009 (947 reads)

“Father Damien left this island unexpectedly and never returned,” Father Robert Schwarzhaupt said during an Oct. 19 prayer service in Annunciation Church in ...

Bishop Silva to speak at the Hawaii Marian conference
Friday, October 30, 2009 (885 reads)

Bishop Larry Silva is one of the main speakers at the second annual Marian Conference Hawaii 2009, “An Invitation to Peace,” Nov. 6-7, at the Dole Ballrooms, ...

St. Anthony Retreat Center marking its centennial
Friday, October 30, 2009 (934 reads)

The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts will celebrate the 100th anniversary of St. Anthony Retreat Center on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 4 p.m. with an open house and rededication. ...

Obituary: Maryknoll Sister Mary Heath served 2 assignments in Hawaii
Friday, October 30, 2009 (754 reads)

Maryknoll Sister Mary Heath, who served two assignments in Hawaii as a social worker and counselor, first in the 1940s and 50s and then in the 1980s and 90s, died ...

Post-canonization notes and commentary
Friday, October 30, 2009 (2533 reads)

Someone with authority at the Vatican was spooked by the thunder that rumbled through the pre-dawn Rome sky on Oct. 11 and decided that the canonization of ...

Diocesan Road Map to the future: Oct. 30, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009 (608 reads)

By the time this article is published, Blessed Damien of Molokai will be St. Damien. So much has been and will be written about him that it is difficult to imagine that this ...

One of us: tragic chapter of Hawaii history redeemed by a canonization
Saturday, October 17, 2009 (1339 reads)

ROME -- In 1866, 12 Hawaiian men and women were put on a ship in Honolulu against their will. They were the first group bound for permanent medical ...

A relic’s passage: Schedule of the tour of the St. Damien relic
Friday, October 16, 2009 (1143 reads)

Following a Christian practice dating back to the catacombs, a part of St. Damien, a bone from his foot, has been given to the Catholics of Hawaii for custody and veneration...

Canonization day in Kalaupapa
Friday, October 16, 2009 (1477 reads)

KALAUPAPA -- Those who remained home at Kalaupapa while so many journeyed to Rome could easily have felt left out of the canonization except for one very ...

First things first: Audrey Toguchi's big day was actually in Belgium, not Rome
Friday, October 16, 2009 (1505 reads)

ROME -- While Oct. 11, may have been the “big day” for Father Damien de Veuster to become St. Damien, the most important part of the canonization of Father Damien ...

‘Damiaan Inspireert’: Belgians are inspired by their favorite son
Friday, October 16, 2009 (1003 reads)

LEUVEN, Belgium -- “Damiaan Inspireert.” Damien Inspires. Those Dutch words followed Hawaii pilgrims during their four days in Belgium, emblazoned on banners ...

Pope's canonization homily: ‘Then come, follow me!’
Friday, October 16, 2009 (872 reads)

DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS! “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” This is the question that opens the brief dialogue we heard in the Gospel, between a man, identified elsewhere as the rich ...

Basilicas, basilicas: Praying in Rome's glorious churches
Friday, October 16, 2009 (945 reads)

Bishop Larry Silva presided at the first group pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 8 in the pope’s church, St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It may have been the accoustic qualities of marble, the inspiration ...

Pilgrim people: they come to the canonization for many reasons
Friday, October 16, 2009 (789 reads)

Toward the end of the time that Hawaii pilgrims had at Father Damien’s grave in St. Anthony Church, Leuven, on Oct. 5, Kalaupapa resident Makia (Elroy) Malo began to chant ...

Postcards from a canonization
Friday, October 16, 2009 (1065 reads)

Varied and assorted photos of folks from Hawaii on tour in Belgium and in Rome for the canonization of Father Damien.

Eternal Rest: Commentary by Bishop Larry Silva
Friday, October 16, 2009 (652 reads)

“ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM, O LORD.” These words from the funeral Mass were pronounced more than once over Father Damien’s body as it lay in its coffin in Kalawao in 1889. They were ...

Franciscans for a day: Hawaii pilgrims visit Assisi
Friday, October 16, 2009 (922 reads)

ASSISI -- At the end of the two-hour walking tour, we learned that St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century lover of God and nature, was a small man with big ears. The ...

Audience made personal: Audrey and Yukio Toguchi front row center at general audience
Friday, October 16, 2009 (583 reads)

VATICAN CITY -- Audrey and Yukio Toguchi sat front row center at Pope Benedict XVI’s Oct. 7 general audience under cloudless skies in St. Peter’s square because of ...

Hawaii has a saint! Pope Benedict canonizes Father Damien
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (2391 reads)

Pope Benedict XVI placed Father Damien de Veuster in the company of canonized saints on Oct. 11 in a glorious liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by thousands ...

Famous photo of new saint taken a month before he died
Friday, October 02, 2009 (2054 reads)

IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS photograph of Father Damien — a picture of a very ill man at the end of his life. He died a month after it was taken....

Reverencing relics: pointing to something that we cannot see
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1697 reads)

Broken pieces of bone. Those are the physical remains coming back to Hawaii on Oct. 17 as a first class relic of St. Damien de Veuster after his canonization....

Life's changed for woman whose cure led to canonization
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1562 reads)

In her 44 years as a teacher, Audrey Toguchi, now retired, doled out a lot of advice to her students. Since she was publicly identified in April 2008 as the woman whose ...

From Damiaan to Kamiano: The transformation of a missionary
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1540 reads)

To say that the young Damiaan de Veuster held some of the narrow views of his time is to be honest. To say that Kamiano was that same Damiaan, transformed by grace ...

KALAUPAPA ANGELS
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1756 reads)

Many in Kalaupapa had waiting anxiously for the day Father Damien would be canonized. An alarming number of them, many who were prominent, died in the ...

Villapando team produces new Father Damien video
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1032 reads)

Venny and Jessica Villapando, 20-year veterans in Hawaii’s television broadcast industry, have produced a new 60-minute video documentary on Father Damien on ...

Saint of Molokai
Friday, October 02, 2009 (2172 reads)

ASSISI, LISIEUX, PADUA, MOLOKAI. Hawaii’s poorest island is about to join a most extraordinary group of “nowheres.” When Pope Benedict XVI elevates Blessed Damien de Veuster to sainthood on Oct. 11 ...

Hansen’s disease
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1066 reads)

Hansen’s disease is the proper name for leprosy, the affliction that quarantined thousands at Kalaupapa and eventually took Father Damien’s life....

Timeline to a Canonization
Friday, October 02, 2009 (1510 reads)

July 7, 1827: The first Catholic missionaries arrive in Hawaii. Jan. 3, 1840: Damien is born Joseph de Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium. 1840: The first cases of leprosy in Hawaii were thought to be documented around this time. The disease was likely introduced to the islands by Chinese immigrants...

A wedding is for a day. A marriage is for a lifetime
Friday, October 02, 2009 (436 reads)

And then there was one. One married couple, that is. James Baguio and Donna Lyn Rabe married each other on Sept. 12 before family, friends, and God at Our Lady of Perpetual Help ...

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