Hawaiians celebrate Saint

Hawaii - In the mid-1800's, Father Damien cared for exiled leprosy patients in Hawaii when no one else would. Ships delivering the sick dumped them offshore and forced them to swim ashore. There were no hospitals or doctors or housing. Father Damien came to the island, cared for the sick, built homes and planted trees. He eventually contracted leprosy himself suffered and died from it. 

Now he has been canonized by the Catholic Church though he has long been considered a saint by the people of Hawaii who are celebrating the designation with the arrival of a relic from the priest.