So not too long ago in the country of Belgium, there was a young man, his name is Joseph,

and Joseph grew up on a farm, and his dad really wanted him to take over the farm when

he got older, but Joseph wanted to be a priest, and his dad was, have a none of it, he said

absolutely not, his older brother had already gone off to the seminary, and Joseph's

dad was like, no, I need you here, and you need to be here.

So it was very strange when Joseph turned 20 years old, and his dad took him to the

city of Lovane, and basically brought him to the seminary, and to Joseph surprised, everyone

seemed to be expecting him, and his dad said, okay, I'm leaving, if you want to stay here,

you can, and if you want to come home, you can.

Choose right now, which I think, I'm not a parent, so I don't know proper parenting things,

that seems kind of like a jerky move for a dad.

Nonetheless, Joseph was like, yeah, I'm staying, so he stayed there, stayed in the seminary,

and he was there, he loved it, kept growing, when he was 24 after being there for four years,

his older brother was going to be assigned to be a missionary to the Pacific Islands.

He was super excited, but as the days got closer, he got incredibly sick, and came down

with an illness that prohibited him from traveling, and so they said, Joseph, you're kind of

like your brother, would you go in his place?

If you go to the Pacific Islands, you will not be able to come home for a really long time,

and Joseph again made the decision, like, yes, absolutely, I'm going to go to the Pacific

Islands, so we went to Hawaii, and became a missionary to the islanders there in Hawaii,

and Hanoleu was ordained, and he became a priest named Father Damien.

And when Father Damien was on the island of Hawaii, he also would take these trips to the

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