Looking forward to this canonization.
I was in Hawaii about 10 years ago and I went out to Molokai. You have to go by boat and then there’s a little (and I mean little!) airplane that takes you over the island and down the cliffs to the edge of the sea, which was where the leper colony is located.
It was an incredibly touching and beautiful spot, very harsh, though, and I can’t imagine how those people felt, exiled to the bottom of high basalt cliffs (sort of like the Palisades, actually, but higher). I guess they just felt they were lucky they had any place to live. And their priest stayed with them, no matter what.
I felt that it was a real privilege to get to go there.
You can also go down the cliffs by mule, btw, but one of the mules had just fallen the week before, so they cancelled the mule rides for a few weeks. I would assume they have resumed, but actually, the little tiny plane, which they balanced by putting bundles of newspapers into compartments on the wings, was pretty adventurous itself!