• Once we got there we explored the beautiful island itself, a fortress inhabited by a former leper colony which is steeped in history. (zannavandijk.co.uk)
  • The first thing anyone in Hawaii ever told me about Molokai was about the former leper colony (of course that was from a tourist who went to visit it by mule). (baconismagic.ca)
  • Just one of the cured lepers then came back to Jesus "praising God in a loud voice" and in deep gratitude fell at the feet of Jesus. (sacredspace.ie)
  • Damien also began to identify as one of them, writing to his brother , "I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ. (adw.org)
  • He saw himself as following the example of Jesus, who never hesitated to touch a leper. (publicchristianity.org)
  • In Matthew 8:1-4 , we see Jesus walking down a mountainside when a leper approaches Him. (securegive.com)
  • Lepers were outcasts in Jesus' time, yet He still stopped to heal many suffering from the disease. (securegive.com)
  • St. Damien, being a man of prayer and a priest for the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, discerned with his community that he should go to the leper colony and serve the sick. (frdominic.com)
  • And so these ten lepers stood at a distance from Jesus, "and they raised their voices. (goodnessofgodministries.international)
  • In the Gospel, Jesus heals a leper on the road with a touch and a word. (htlcms.org)
  • Because of their dreaded disease, such people were literally outcasts condemned to live their lives on the fringes of society. (sacredspace.ie)
  • And while there may not be any real lepers in our own society, today is an occasion for us to reflect on who could be regarded as lepers, outsiders, outcasts, and untouchables among us at the present time. (sacredspace.ie)
  • It was then used as a leper colony, and now, restored with even a museum, Spinalonga is one of the most famous attractions in Crete. (mel365.com)
  • Spinalonga was converted into a leper colony in 1913 just after the Turks were evicted from Crete. (mel365.com)
  • Although treatment for leprosy was already implemented since 1940, Spinalonga kept working as a leper colony till 1957. (mel365.com)
  • In those hard years, the Greeks that were found with leper symptoms were sent straight to Spinalonga. (mel365.com)
  • After 1957, the Greek government tried to erase the memory of the Spinalonga leper colony, burning all the documents. (mel365.com)
  • Spinalonga, an islet served as a lepers colony, Knossos and Malia palaces of the Minoan era prove with their presence how far back in history Crete was inhabited. (etravel.gr)
  • But in the midst of that paradise of islands was once a place that was a hell of despair - the "leper colony" on the Kalaupapa peninsula of the island of Molokai. (adw.org)
  • A leper colony was established here: the Kalaupapa Peninsula, on the island of Molokai. (publicchristianity.org)
  • For example, while St. Damien was alive it was believed that leprosy was highly contagious (it is not), so a leper colony was established on the island of Molokai just off the Kalaupapa Peninsula in Hawaii. (frdominic.com)
  • When they asked for volunteers to go and visit the lepers, Father Damien was one of the first to put his hand up for the arduous journey. (publicchristianity.org)
  • On this day in 1873, a Catholic priest known simply as Father Damien purposed in his heart that he would not take the easy way out -- he would, almost literally, enter hell to witness to the people there. (mu.nu)
  • Father Damien faced similar conditions in Hawaii, specifically in the leper colonies that he went to. (mu.nu)
  • Historically, those who contracted leprosy, now called Hansen's disease, were banished from their communities, literally treated as "untouchable. (adw.org)
  • It's an unfair association-leprosy was a misunderstood disease , and many "lepers" were actually suffering from eczema, smallpox or other ailments. (listverse.com)
  • Paulie ended up on the colony as a young child when his mother was diagnosed with leprosy , now known as Hansen's Disease. (tallahassee.com)
  • Instead of the existing asylums and colonies they now needed to build many new hospitals to treat these leprosy patients. (lauriebaker.net)
  • These individuals were literally untouchable to society. (securegive.com)
  • It might seem like a strange command, but it wasn't, because when a leper believed that he had indeed recovered from his disease and was well, he was to go the priest, and there was to be a purification ceremony to assure that that, in fact, was the case, as much as they could in ancient times. (goodnessofgodministries.international)
  • Brunel's ethics, however, are nothing compared to the politically avaricious priest Anselm who bullies the nuns running the colony into doing his bidding. (tallahassee.com)
  • The island was also used in the past as a leper colony and animal quarantine station. (scottstoll.com)
  • From 1836 to 1931 the island was used as a leper colony and in the 20th century it became infamous as a gaol for political prisoners under Apartheid. (worldheritagesite.org)
  • We remember how the famous Fr Damien, the Apostle to the Lepers, eventually contracted the disease through his ministering to a colony of lepers in Hawaii. (sacredspace.ie)
  • Now, the term "leper" has come to be regarded as offensive, inasmuch as it dehumanizes the person, reducing him or her to the disease and an object of repulsion. (adw.org)
  • In the course of the disease, muscles waste away and fingers and toes become grossly distorted and eventually a foot or hand may literally fall off. (mysteriesofthemessiah.net)
  • Leper colonies still exist in places where the disease can't be easily treated, although they no longer have to wear the outfit. (listverse.com)
  • Lepers always stood at a distance because it was believed, and probably true, that their particular disease had infectious capabilities, and so they were basically quarantined, and isolated into leper colonies, and they were kept to themselves, apart from any interaction with healthy people. (goodnessofgodministries.international)
  • You can find also a collection of memories of the leper colony days. (mel365.com)
  • I just wasn't right about a half an hour later when I went to dig out some winter aconite from another wilder bed and ended up looking like a colony leper three days later. (mariannewillburn.com)
  • We can encounter these wretched poor, these "lepers," in every corner of society and in every station of life. (adw.org)
  • Foucault begins the chapter "Panopticism" with a description of the plague, where lepers were quarantined and kept separate from the rest of society. (serendipstudio.org)
  • He explains, however, that the example of lepers is symbolic, and that many in society are subjected to panopticism, an "enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded. (serendipstudio.org)
  • In fact, there is irony here but no contradiction: panoptic structures, whether they are prisons or leper colonies or places where the poor reside, can easily be both highly regulated or inspected and invisible to the larger society. (serendipstudio.org)
  • TichileČ™ti was founded as a monastery of TichileČ™ti, with time becoming a leper colony. (wikipedia.org)
  • Let's face it, when it comes to speaking ill of another, you can literally spend your entire life doing so and make it a full time job if you so wish. (aishfl.com)
  • Spend time on their level, literally. (compassion.com)
  • And in fact, in India and Brazil and many other places of the world, the places that are landfills, that are dumps, you have literally cities of people living in those dumps, so that when the trucks come and empty out, that's when they go shopping. (truthnetwork.com)
  • There were extraordinary people who worked among the deformity and decay of leper colonies 150 years ago. (truthnetwork.com)
  • As will be shown below, people would ask their rabbi this question and his response would be that he did not know, but when the messiah comes, he will know and will heal lepers. (mysteriesofthemessiah.net)
  • John 21:17) St. Damien was able to rally the people together and started building up the colony, literally by building homes, schools, and even their parish church, St. Philomena. (frdominic.com)
  • Husband decides he would rather just live in the leper colony than try to figure out which laws apply on any given day. (sacrilegiousdiscourse.com)
  • In its worst form, the leper had to live outside the community (Lev. (mysteriesofthemessiah.net)
  • Featuring some of Disney's best animation in the postwar years, the live action and animated sequences are brought together seamlessly, with the Uncle Remus-spun tales of trickery and fun literally popping off the screen in gorgeous, realer-than-life Technicolor. (zekefilm.org)
  • Told not to touch the residents, he soon overcame any qualms he had and embraced them, literally - he dined with them, he put his arms around them. (adw.org)
  • It's also a tribute to how he overcame fear and survival and prejudice to literally create - not only a new life - but a new country full of hope. (scottstoll.com)
  • Ehrenreich, 117) Not only are the poor literally living in separate communities - trailer parks, urban projects, and isolated rural towns - but their existence has been taken out of popular consciousness. (serendipstudio.org)
  • Not literally of course, but He does love to take people's wrecked lives and make them worth something. (tallahassee.com)
  • But in Jewish communities some lepers could attend the synagogue although they had to be seated in a secluded area. (mysteriesofthemessiah.net)
  • This incredible film, although largely forgotten about now, enacted in great detail, the long-held British Fabian Society's Anglo/Soviet communist plot to ruthlessly destroy the United States of America and convert it into a "leper colony" of the City of London Corporation, headed by the British Sovereign. (fourwinds10.com)
  • Living in colonies outside of the city, isolated, alone, and seemingly unwanted by their peers. (securegive.com)
  • What was supposed to be a temporary job in the remote isolated leper colony in inland china became a four-year stay. (lauriebaker.net)
  • The largest lake in Isaccea is "Lacul Rotund" (literally, Round Lake), having an area of 2.19 km2 and a volume of 2.0 million m3. (wikipedia.org)
  • The lepers used to meet at the cross-roads of St Luke's which is still known in Irish as Crosaire na mBocht and from there they would walk down a high walled route from the Montenotted ridge area to bathe in the River Lee. (weebly.com)