Hundreds of skeletons from a medieval graveyard have been discovered beneath ... or other wretched persons," while pregnant women, lepers, the wounded, cripples and the mentally ill were ...

But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers. In the Middle Ages lepers were dreaded and shunned, were forced to wear white capes and jangle warning ...

Fear fell upon the lads, as cold as death. “A leper!” said Dick, hoarsely. “His touch is death,” said Matcham. “Let us run.” . . . He had been a tall man before he was bowed by his ...

Leper, or lazar, houses were built from 960AD onwards. Care in such houses would have been as much about people’s spiritual needs as their physical ailments and most hospitals were built around ...

A 72-year-old French national, Pierre Reyniers, who dedicated his life to serving lepers in Uttarakhand DEHRADUN ... in Ganga and the rest were kept in a graveyard. “Pierre did not believe ...

At Easter in 1105 , Queen Edith-Matilda of England invited a crowd of lepers to her apartments and washed their feet. Leprosy was a scary disease in the Middle Ages: disgusting, infectious and ...