Directed by Paul Cox.
Filming of this TV movie began with David Janssen in the title role, but after only a couple of days work, the actor suffered a fatal heart attack. Damien is destined to spend the last years of his life on Molokai when he contacts the disease himself, working to ease the pain of his fellow victims to his last breath. The footage was scrapped, the part was recast, and shooting started over with Ken Howard. This program tells the story of Father Damien a priest whose modest beginnings gave way to eventual greatness. Narrated by Robin Williams AN UNCOMMON KINDNESS explores Damien's work with the sufferers of leprosy quarantined to islands off Hawaii in 1872.System Requirements:Running Time 60 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. The Hawaiian government, with support from the Catholic and other churches sent almost all lepers to the colony. To alleviate their fate, Father Damien was the first priest to go to Molokai. The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
His bishop's last words were that "he must not touch anyone." Little by little, Damien earned the trust of the lepers, and eventually, his appeals for nuns and supplies resonated throughout the world, much to the displeasure of his superiors. As it spread, a colony for the isolation and care of lepers was established on the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula on the norther side of the island of Molokai. With the coming of more immigrants from Asia, cases of leprosy began to appear around the Hawaiian islands in the late 19th century. The Catholic Bishop who is in charge of the places feels a need to send some priests there to administer las… When in 1863 his older brother, Father Pamphile, couldn’t go to Hawaii on a Sacred Hearts mission because of the illness, Damien was resolved to take his place and achieved his goal by petitioning the highest a… In 1860, he became Brother Damien in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and started his studies to become a priest. With Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, David Wenham, Jan Kleinejan, Michael W. Perry. He was born Jozef De Veuster on January 3, January 1840, on a farm in rural Belgium.
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