On the journey to sainthood: Father Damien and the presentation of missionary work in nineteenth-century Hawai’i in a Belgian museum

Figures & data

FIG 1 Kalaupapa leprosy community, Moloka‘i (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 2 Father Damien’s family house (centre) integrated into the convent. This photo was taken before the fire of 1943 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 3 Father Damien’s body is carried into St Anthony’s Chapel in Leuven, Belgium, on 2 May 1936 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 4 The Damien Museum around 1960 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 5 The family room at the Damien Museum around 1960 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 6 Documentation room focusing on Father Damien’s life at the Damien Museum around 1960 with the altar that Father Damien built for the St Philomena Church (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 7 Newspaper clipping of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, December 2, 1936, showing Mrs. Lahilahi Webb, guide at the BP Bishop Museum with the ki‘i heiau (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven with permission of Honolulu Star Bulletin).

FIG 8 Documentation room focusing on Hawai‘i at the Damien Museum around 1960 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 9 Display case with fibre skirts, musical instruments and photographs of dance performances in the Documentation room focusing on Hawai‘i at the Damien Museum around 1960 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 10 Chapel adjacent to the room where Father Damien was born, where his original coffin was displayed from 1956 onwards (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 11 Refurbished Damien Museum, which opened on 25 May 2017 (Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 12 Timeline in the 2017 refurbished Damien Museum (Copyright Bailleul; Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).

FIG 13 First Documentation room in the 2017 refurbished Damien Museum (Copyright Bailleul; Courtesy of Damien Collection, Leuven).