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3:00 PM PT - Jun 29th, 2006

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Lot 156
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FATHER DAMIEN, LEPROSY CABINET CARD

Priest who worked at a leper colony and contracted leprosy from which he died in 1873. He was considered a paradigm of humane self-sacrifice. Cabinet card by Benziger Brothers, sold for the benefit of the Leper Mission. [3+]

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