![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Granger, Honolulu SC Bulls Luis-Gabriel Nicolas Charvet, East Diablo United U17, Brentwood, California, Goalkeeper: Luis-Gabriel Nicolas Charvet's consistent and solid performance is key to the Impact Lightning 93's success. Nick also serves as a second year captain of his High School team, with aspirations to play at the next level in college and at present, Nick is considering Sonoma State University. Not only does Nick excel on the field but also in the class room as well carrying a 3.35 GPA including A.P. Nick Krahnke, U17 East Diablo United U17, Brentwood, California, Midfielder: This season in the U-17/18 NorCal Premier Division, East Diablo United SC Impact Lightning 93 midfielder Nick Krahnke's brilliant passing touch and field vision producing 4 goals and 6 assists in the last 8 games. You can submit nominations at Following is the Boys list (in no particular order). There will be a boys’ list and a girls’ list, and a new region will be covered every weekday, Tuesday through Friday of each month. Remember, this feature is to honor top performers in their region across the span of age groups. In this case in particular, it reflects her decision "to undertake the work directly and simply in much the same way Father Damien did his work.Here is the club soccer Players To Watch Team of the Month for the Northern California & Hawaii Region. The statue's design is typical of the sculptor's work Marisol Escobar is known for her portraits with faces, hands and feet attached to large blocks of wood. This statue and that of King Kamehameha I, Hawaii's other gift to the National Statuary Hall Collection, were unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda on April 15, 1969, 80 years after Father Damien's death. The bronze statue was shipped to New York, where it lingered because of a longshoremen’s strike, so a second statue was sent directly to Washington, D.C. Finally, a wax impression of the statue reached the foundry. The plaster model that she then created for casting was broken on its voyage to the foundry in Viareggio, Italy a second plaster model reached Italy but was then lost. Aware of Damien’s fondness for carpentry as a recreation, she first created a full-size model in wood, her preferred medium. New York sculptor Marisol Escobar's contemporary design was chosen over more classically styled representations. Hawaii's Statuary Hall Commission received offers from 66 artists to create the statue of Father Damien for the Capitol and selected seven to submit models. His broad-brimmed hat was traditionally worn by missionaries. The bronze statue is based on photographs taken of Father Damien near the end of his life, with the scars of his disease visible on his face and his right arm in a sling beneath his cloak. On October 11, 2009, Father Damien was canonized (i.e., elevated to sainthood) by Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony at the Vatican, thus becoming Saint Damien. ![]() As he suspected, the disease was leprosy.įather Damien died peacefully on April 15, 1889, on Molokai after 16 years of undaunted dedication. In December 1884, Father Damien noticed severe blisters on his feet without the presence of pain. He bandaged wounds, made coffins, dug graves, heard confessions, and said Mass every morning. He constructed a home for boys and later a home for girls. Father Damien accomplished amazing feats while residing on Molokai. The bishop replied that he could stay as long as his devotion dictated. After two days Damien was willing to devote the rest of his life to the leper settlement. While in Kohala, Father Damien wrote to the Father General that many of his parishioners had been shipped to a leper colony on Molokai and that he had "an undeniable feeling that soon I shall join them." On May 10, 1873, Father Damien traveled with Bishop Maigret and a shipload of lepers to Molokai. ![]() The son of well-to-do parents, he entered the Sacred Hearts Congregation at Louvain in January 1859 and five years later was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu. This statue of Father Damien was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Hawaii in 1969.įather Damien was born Joseph de Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840. ![]()
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