Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii's leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers."
Father Damien lived on with his afflicted flock until 1889. Three years before he died he was joined by "Brother Joseph" (Ira Barnes Dutton), a Vermont-born Civil War hero...
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