Sentences with phrase «leper colonies»

One of the main sites to see is Kalaupapa National Historical Park, which was created to preserve the history of the leper colonies.

Almost all his ministry was centered on the spiritual and material care of the residents of leper colonies.

But it was for a team that nobody wanted to be part of, a team that, frankly, was the leper colony.

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

Greene's only other truly important novel, A Burnt - Out Case, is set in a leper colony in Africa where the architect Querry (read: query) has fled following the failure of his gift as a designer of churches.

This is the presence of God, this is the holy moment, the cathedral, the great moment of surrender and selflessness happening not in the leper colony of India but for me in my own living room in Canada, the breaking of bread and daily manna of communion through a messy home with messy people, learning to love and take joy even when the toast is getting cold.

It's a great miscarriage of justice to make her try to appeal towards women when she is flakier than a leper colony.

When word came after his first week there that members of the Italian press were coming to see him, he fled seven miles by bicycle into the woods, to Pope John's Garden, a leper colony run by the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and one that, Benvenuti says, even many doctors and priests avoided for fear of contracting leprosy.

Like a leper colony, you've chosen to ship them to us.»

A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club finds the movie «aggressively maudlin,» but admits that if there's «any power to this manipulative movie, it lies in quiet dignity of its lead performance, delivered by a nonprofessional actor from an actual leper colony.»

But certainly, he does not lack for the extraordinary: dining with the Queen of Tonga in a leper colony; making his way across tropical Africa — and two civil wars — in a forty - four - year - old flying boat; delivering a new church bell to a remote Oceanian island.

When Crow saw a fire burning on Penikese, where there had once been a leper colony, I knew I would have to learn more about that island, its hospital and patients, and the disease itself.

Lyrical prose transports readers to a Philippine leper colony, circa 1906.

But despite the love from Osh and their neighbor Miss Maggie, Crow is consumed with finding her origins, and so she embarks on a search that leads her to a former leper colony on a nearby island — and here's where things get really exciting.

Tiphanie Yanique is a native of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and the author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony.

As young medical students, they witnessed deep poverty across the continent, particularly Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and their stay at a Peruvian leper colony left a lasting impression on the pair.

The report added that a visit to a leper colony in Cebu «made him realize he could make a difference by being Santa.»

But once you've taken the choppy ferry over to the former prison and leper colony you might like to consider stepping a little further back in time to explore!

Once a quiet island, quite literally in the middle of nowhere, it was transformed into a Leper Colony and became a place where advances were made against the treatments and cures of the heartbreaking disease.

After a slow walk of about an hour with many stops for giant crabs, tortoises and birds we arrived at the ruins of the leper colony and the doctor's house which is now a museum with information about Curieuse Island's history.

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

The scenic former leper colony island of Curieuse is a sanctuary for local wildlife — and for visitors who can relish in its tranquil charms More

First it was used to house a leper colony.

Once the largest leper colony in the world during the early 1900's, it stands today as a stark reminder of life in the Philippines when leprosy was still an incurable disease, and a testament to how leprosy was eradicated not just in the Philippines but in the entire world.

The Kalaupapa Peninsula on Molokai was once a leper colony.

I enjoyed reading «The Island» by Victoria Hislop, based on the Leper Colony on Spinalonga Island in Crete.

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By Medieval times, cultures around the globe were familiar with the deforming lesions and decaying flesh that resulted in lepers being burned at the stake or carted off to die in remote colonies.

It's as if I'm a leper without a colony.