The Scandinavian peninsula, is a peninsula located at the northwest corner of Europe and encloses the Baltic Sea. It extends from Russia and Finland in the north and almost reaches Denmark in the south. It contains the countries Norway on the west and Sweden on the east and is named from the Scandinavian mountain range separating the two countries.
... (January 3, 1840 - April 15, 1888) was a Roman Catholic priest who dedicated his life to ministering to the sufferers of Hansen's disease (leprosy) who lived on the island ...