From Sunday, January 31, CatholicTV Mass of Thanksgiving honoring the recent canonization of Saint Damien of Molokai, a priest known for working with lepers in Hawaii. From the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Saint Damien was a Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. He won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (known as Hansen's disease), who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Archdiocese of Hawaii produced a video looking at the life of Damien.
After sixteen years caring for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of those in the leper colony, he eventually contracted and died of the disease, and is widely considered a "martyr of charity". He is the ninth person recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church to have lived, worked, and died in what is now the United States.