She is known as the sister of one of the most famous men of the Bible, Moses, and credited with helping to save him from death as a baby. (Read Exodus 2:1-10) She is later honored as a prophetess (Read Exodus 15:20-21) and a leader of the Israelites (Read Micah 6:4) in her own right. […]
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In 1894, an abandoned plantation in Louisiana called Woodlawn was home to tall grasses and snakes, but it soon became the only leper colony in America. This colony is soon to be known as Carville and it would be here that over the next several decades more than five people would first come to be […]
Definition Leprosy, otherwise known as Hansen’s Disease, is a bacterial disease, caused by Mycobacterium Leprae infection. History First seen in Egypt and the Far East 600 years before the birth of Christ, leprosy became a rampant plague in Europe during the thirteenth century, thriving amidst the unsanitary conditions of heavily populated communities. With no effective […]