Father Eustace van Lieshout was born in Aarle Rixtel, and it was while living there that he learned the story of Damien of Molokai, who lived in the Brabant region, located between the south of the Netherlands and the north of Belgium.<\/p>\n
The blessed man learned of Damien's story in his childhood, but it was in his youth, while reading about the Saint's life, that Father Eustace became captivated by Damien of Molokai. It was then that the desire to become a missionary, just as the "apostle of the lepers" had become, arose in his heart.<\/p>\n
In 1915, the young Eust\u00e1quio professed vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, becoming a religious of the Sacred Hearts, just like Saint Damien of Molokai.<\/p>\n
Who was Saint Damien of Molokai?<\/strong><\/p>\n Father Damien, or Damien of Molokai, was a missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts in Belgium in 1840.<\/p>\n He dedicated his missionary life to caring for lepers on Molokai, an island in Hawaii, where he died of the disease in 1889.<\/p>\n Damien was the first missionary to set foot on the "Cursed Island," accepting the mission of caring for the sick when no one else wanted to follow that calling. He treated the lepers with dignity, showing no fear of the future that awaited him.<\/p>\n The priest was beatified in 1995 and canonized in 2009. He was considered the greatest Belgian of all time and became the patron saint of Hawaii.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Padre Eust\u00e1quio van Lieshout nasceu em Aarle Rixtel, e foi morando l\u00e1 que conheceu a hist\u00f3ria de Dami\u00e3o de Molokai, que viveu na regi\u00e3o da Brab\u00e2ncia, que fica entre o sul da Holanda e o norte da B\u00e9lgica. O beato conheceu a hist\u00f3ria de Dami\u00e3o ainda na inf\u00e2ncia, mas foi na juventude, ao ler sobre a vida do Santo, que Padre Eust\u00e1quio encantou-se com Dami\u00e3o de Molokai. Foi quando suscitou no seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o a vontade de se tornar um mission\u00e1rio assim como o \u201cap\u00f3stolo dos hansenianos\u201d havia se tornado. Em 1915 o jovem Eust\u00e1quio professou os votos de pobreza, castidade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n