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Pope Paul VI approved a decree this summer citing "the heroic virtues" of Father Damien, the first step on the road toward sainthood for the Belgian-born missionary. Famed for his devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage...
...beds were filled by patients who were very sick, not only from active leprosy and its complications but also from tuberculosis and kidney diseases. But even at that time, she said, there had been, naturally, a vast improvement in conditions and in nursing and medical care over what Father Damien had found when he landed in the colony...
...number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides his people to Armageddon. "It's a natural development," says Bernhard. "Like...
...said the victims had "abdominal injuries, head injuries, ruptured spleens, broken femurs and lacerated chests. Most of the injuries were caused by flying roofs, iron and timber. Darwin is gone. There's nothing left but rubble." Among the survivors were Steve Albanis, his wife Carol and their son, Damien, 2½, who outlasted the storm by huddling inside a deep freezer with 18-in. walls. Geoff James and his wife Barbara clung to their front fence for four hours; when the wind changed, they climbed over and clung to the other side. Mrs. Maureen Hutchinson, 27, recalled...
Died. Father Damien Boulogne, 58, the Dominican priest who lived 523 days with a transplanted heart, a record second only to that of South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, who survived for 594 days; of as yet undetermined causes; in Paris. On May 12, 1968, Boulogne received the heart of a 39-year-old Paris customs officer, and within a few months had resumed a more or less normal life, working on a book and regularly celebrating Mass. His death came as a complete surprise to Jiis doctor, Charles Dubost, who was away lecturing at a Mexican university...