Jozef De Veuster Quotes

Belgium, Priest
January 3, 1840 – April, 15, 1889.

Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. or Saint Damien De Veuster (Dutch: Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. He won recognition for his ministry from 1873 to 1889 in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to people with leprosy (also known as Hansen's disease), who were required to live under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokaʻi on the Kalaupapa Peninsula.

Turn all your thoughts and aspirations to heaven. Work hard to secure for yourself a place there for ever.

Jozef De Veuster
- Work
- Heaven
- Thoughts
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

Jozef De Veuster
- Price
- Cure
- Island

The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

Jozef De Veuster
I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Jozef De Veuster
- Jesus
- Make
- Leper
Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

Jozef De Veuster
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.

Jozef De Veuster
- Doctor
- Skill
- Cure