The saint performed a miracle and cured the leper.
Le saint accomplit un miracle et guérit le lépreux.
A kind man approached the leper and gave him food.
Un homme bienveillant s'approcha du lépreux et lui donna à manger.
Almost 9,000 people were exiled to the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
Près de 9 000 personnes ont été exilées dans la colonie de lépreux sur l'île hawaïenne de Molokai.
Lepers were taken to a leper colony so they were isolated from healthy people.
Les lépreux étaient emmenés dans une léproserie afin d'être isolés des personnes saines.
Although leprosy has been a curable disease since the 1940s, leper colonies continue to exist mainly due to the fact that patients tend to be ostracized from their communities.
Bien que la lèpre soit une maladie curable depuis les années 1940, les léproseries continuent d'exister principalement parce que les patients ont tendance à être ostracisés par leurs communautés.
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