They seem to have led an existence like the lepers in Palestine, being avoided and despised by the inhabitants generally, and they appear to have been both diminutive and ugly.(See St. Savin, p. 73).

The lepers of whom we read in the Bible were obliged to dwell alone outside the camp; and even king Uzziah, when smitten with leprosy, mighty monarch though he was, had to give up his throne and dwell by himself to the end of his days.

The cruelty of those feudal ages finds one of its innumerable records in the treatment of the miserable lepers at Albi.

It was known to all the lepers of Ireland how Mochuda made their fellow-sufferers his special care and family, and the result was that an immense number of lepers from all parts flocked to him and he took charge and care of them.

He lays His hands on the sick, and they are healed; He touches the eyes of the blind, and they see; unto the leper as white as snow his flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child; even souls that are dead through their trespasses and sins He restores to life.

I am a beggar, an outcast, as a leper among honorable persons.

If his face, as he wrote it, was anything to judge by he described me as a leper without a license.

a Leper amongst Noble men?

You would have thought they had touched a leper by the way they drew themselves up and changed face.

The blind prayed for sight, the lepers for a cure, the lame far the use of their limbs, and the deaf for the use of their ears, and surely had they prayed unwarrantably, their prayers would not have been so miraculously answered.

Until the year 1873 the lot of the lepers on their help them, that all hearts were turned in love towards him.