Alleluia - the Greek form (Rev. 19:1, 3, 4, 6) of the HebrewHallelujah[?] =
Praise ye Jehovah, which begins or ends several of the psalms
(106, 111, 112, 113, etc.).
... at the leper colony (see Kalawao County, Hawaii), he contracted the disease, from which he died at the colony.
He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was ...