Men to Remember - Sunday Stamps

As Viridian had already posted Einstein, I picked the first three stamps from my world album and came up with these:

Fr Damien

Fr Damien, the Leper Priest of Molokai, was born in Belgium in 1840. In 1873 he went to work in the leper colony on Molokai, one of the Hawaiian Islands. His life among the lepers led to an intensive study of Hansen’s disease and eventually to a cure. He died from leprosy in 1889. Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1995, he was named a saint in October 2009.

Hans Christian Sonne (150th anniversary of his birth)

 Dean Hans Christian Sonne was a Danish theologian and pastor who became parish priest in Thisted in 1864. There, he founded the Thisted market town Workers Association, later known as the Thisted Workers Association. This was the beginning of the Danish cooperative movement.

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer was the German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician and medical missionary born in 1875 in Alsace Lorraine. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life.” As a missionary in Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa he was interned by the French in WWI, but returned there in 1937. At Lambaréné, (now in Gabon), he founded and sustained The Albert Schweitzer Hospital.

One of Schweitzer quotes is well worth remembering, “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” Many owe their subsequent good health to him.

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