Ad Gentes is the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church. Passed by the bishops assembled by a vote of 2,394 to 5, it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965. The title means "to the nations in Latin, and is from the first line of the decree, as is customary with Roman Catholic documents.
... patron of lepers and outcasts, and was recently made the patron of AIDS patients. The world's only Catholic memorial chapel to victims of AIDS, a shrine to Father Damien, ...