DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Father Lane Akiona, left, and Bobby Asing, on ladder, draped leis on the Father Damien DeVeuster statue at the state Capitol as part of yesterday's Damien Day celebration. The ceremony marked the priest's arrival in Kalaupapa, Molokai, where he aided leprosy patients for 16 years before dying in 1889. CLICK FOR LARGE
DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM Students from St. Francis School, left, brought a portrait of Sister Marianne Cope, who also served at Kalaupapa. CLICK FOR LARGE