Hylte is a municipality in southwest Sweden, in the county of Halland. The municipality covers an area of 951.0 km². Of the total population of 10479, 5308 are male, and 5171 are female. The population density of the community is 11 inhabitants per km².
... the patients 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 ...