By Michael Warren Davis, Crisis Magazine - It was the end Father Damien had expected when he arrived at Molokai in 1873. When the local bishop presented the missionary to his new flock, he introduced himself as “one who will be a father to you, and who loves you so much that he does not hesitate to become one of you; to live and die with you.”... What could possess a healthy young priest to travel 12,000 miles from home to serve men and women suffering from such a hideous disease?