Who would have thought my shriveled heart/ Could have recovered greenness? It was gone/ Quite underground; as flowers depart/ To see their mother-root when they have blown;/ Where they together/ All the hard weather/ Dead to the world, keep house unknown. -George Herbert
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Father Damien just got canonized...
I hadn't actually heard of him before, but Father Damien, a Belgian priest who ministered to lepers in Hawaii, just got canonized this past Sunday. He's a "martyr of charity", he eventually contracted leprosy and died of it from his years of ministry to them. Anyway here's his wikipedia article, good to see stuff like this.
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