* The Venetian fort and leper colony at Spinalonga opposite the beach and shallow waters of Elounda ( Ag.

At the time of his death, Janssen had just begun filming a television movie playing the part of Father Damien, the priest who dedicated himself to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

Devil's island was first used to house the prison system's leper colony.

During these stops, she visited a leper colony in China and she bought a monkey in Singapore.

In the past Peel Island has been used as a sisal plantation, quarantine station, asylum and a leper colony.

To the east of the village of Elounda lies the island of Spinalonga, formerly a Venetian fortress and a leper colony.

Nyssa strikes a bargain with the Vanir-in exchange for synthesizing hydromel and freeing them from the corporation's influence, they will turn Terminus from a leper colony into a true hospital, and with the Garm's help refine the radiation cure.

They have 19 homes in Kolkata ( Calcutta ) alone which include homes for women, for orphaned children, and for the dying ; an AIDS hospice, a school for street children, and a leper colony.

It has also, in its time, been the location of a foundlings hospital and a leper colony.

She visited 53 nations, often bypassing luncheons and teas and instead visiting hospitals, orphanages, and even a leper colony in Panama.

A leper colony administered by a Roman Catholic order was often called a lazar house, after Lazarus, the patron saint of lepers.

Debate exists over the conditions found within historical leper colonies ; while they are currently thought to have been grim and neglected places, there are some indications that life within a leper colony or house was no worse than the life of other, non-quarantined individuals.

A medieval leper colony, on Royston Road, was located during excavations in 2003, having been thought for many years to lie to the south-east of the town on the former Pesthouse Lane ( now Clothall Road ), the A507.

Bidadari Island was also known as Pulau Sakit ( Sick Island ) as it housed a leper colony during the 17th century.

The former is a tidal island and was a leper colony until the 18th century ( although it has been suggested that many of the " lepers " there were suffering from a vitamin deficiency rather than leprosy ).

It was designated as a leper colony in 1950 and the islanders were relocated to Tai Pak, Shap Long and Cheung Chau.

It was the site of a groundbreaking 19th-century research facility that was the precursor to the famed Marine Biological Laboratory ( MBL ) in Woods Hole, was the site of the state's only leper colony in the early 20th century, and is currently a bird sanctuary and site of the Penikese Island School, an innovative, 35-year-old school for troubled teens.

The leper colony was funded by the proceeds of the Munyat ' Ajab, an estate built for or named after Ajab.

Her father was a navigational engineer, and the family moved to New Delhi, India, when she was seven, where her father worked for the government, while her mother volunteered for Mother Teresa in a leper colony and a home for unwed mothers.

Newkirk helped her mother out in the leper colony — packing pills and rolling bandages, stuffing toys for orphans, and feeding strays — and says that this informed her view that anyone in need, including animals, was worthy of concern, along with her mother's advice that it doesn ’ t matter who suffers, but how.

In his first week as Governor, Douglas faced a firestorm of protest from residents of Cape Cod enraged by the Commonwealth's intention to establish a leper colony in the small town of Brewster, Massachusetts.

The patriarch of the Kee family contracts leprosy ( aka the " Chinese sickness ") and is sent to the leper colony in Molokai.

Dougherty would also ride on horseback and in canoe to carry out his ministry, which including confirming children, visiting a leper colony, and opening schools and missions.

A leper colony administered by a Christian religious order was often called a lazar house, after the parable of Lazarus the Beggar.

Mark gets what seems proof of their guilt and resolves to punish them: Tristan by hanging and Iseult by burning on the stake, later putting her up in a lazar house ( a leper colony ).

Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Baron Kerry founded a Franciscan friary there in 1253, and Nicholas, the 2nd Lord Kerry, built a leper house there in 1312.

It is in this house – or rather, under the house's front porch – that Eddie Kaspbrak first encounters It, which shows itself as a mix between a homeless leper and its familiar Pennywise form.

Several mountain inns were established in the Middle Ages to house pilgrims traveling to Trondheim, and there are even ruins of an old leper colony in the northern area of it.

In the meantime, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper.

The latter seems to have had a leper house: there is a farm with this name today at Gunstone and the Ordnance Survey records a Leper Well on the banks of the Moat Brook close by.

The ruins of the leper colony is now well blended into the landscape and includes Creole colonial architecture which consists of a doctor's house turned into a museum containing all the information about Curieuse Island.

Nichiren attributed the turmoil in society to the invalid teachings of the Buddhist schools of his time, including the Tendai sect in which he was ordained: " It is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myōhō-renge-kyō than be a chief abbot of the Tendai school ".

Although the forced quarantine or segregation of patients is unnecessary in places where adequate treatments are available, many leper colonies still remain around the world in countries such as India ( where there are still more than 1, 000 leper colonies ), China, Romania, Egypt, Nepal, Somalia, Liberia, Vietnam, and Japan.

His old friend Harvey Hill wrote to a newspaper: " Our scalawag is the local leper of the community.

It is outrageous that Austria has an emperor who did no evil to anyone, but is still treated like a leper.

His other two narrative poems are Gregorius, also an adaptation of a French epic, and Der arme Heinrich, which tells the story of a leper cured by a young girl who is willing to sacrifice her life for him.

Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper colony overseen by Catholic missionaries, he is diagnosed-by Dr Colin, the resident doctor-as the mental equivalent of a ' burnt-out case ': a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation.

Recently returned home after 25 years is their brother Jack, a priest who has lived as a missionary in a leper colony in a remote village called Ryanga in Uganda.

He is well respected in Donegal for his missionary work in a leper colony.

The Haarlem leper colony, Het Dolhuys, still exists and is currently a museum.

The leper must still be considered as unclean ( this, too, is directed against Anan, who had held that the laws regarding the clean and the unclean were not applicable in the Diaspora ).

One day, there is a great storm and a leper wishes to cross.

When Julian gives the man everything without hesitation, the leper is revealed to be an angel, or perhaps Jesus Christ himself, and Julian is taken to heaven.

The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem ( Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani ) is an order of chivalry originally founded at a leper hospital in 1098 by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

It is unknown when the order became militarised but militarisation occurred before the end of the twelfth century due to the large numbers of Templars and Hospitallers sent to the leper hospitals to be treated.

The Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem ( OSLJ ) is an order of chivalry which originated in a leper hospital founded by Knights Hospitaller in the twelfth century by Crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

It is unknown when the order became militarised but militarisation occurred before the end of the twelfth century due to the large numbers of Templars and Hospitallers sent to the leper hospitals to be treated.