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📸 Day 5: Beard.

The owner of the beard is Father Damien of Molokai, a 19th century Belgian Catholic priest whose statue stands in front of the Hawaiʻi State Capitol. He cared for leprosy patients on the island for more than a decade until himself succumbing to it, age 49.

A bronze statue of Father Damien stands prominently on a pedestal in front of a modern building with tall columns.

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