But one famous example is Father Damien (now a saint), who spent more than 15 years serving patients at Kalaupapa before contracting and dying from the disease himself at the age of 49 in 1889.

A celebration of life will take place on Thursday at St. Francis Church in Kalaupapa, said Father Patrick Killilea, pastor of the church where Kahilihiwa was a member. Killilea said he believed ...

Kalaupapa Peninsula sits on Molokai’s northern coast, cut off from the world by towering sea cliffs and rough waters. From 1866 to 1969, this isolated spot was Hawaii’s leprosy settlement, where ...