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Title
Maryknoll priests with Chinese people at Danzhu, China, 1944
Date Created and/or Issued
1944-09-19
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, P.O. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
This is a photograph of Frs. Brack, McLaughlin and P. Donnelly [back row, left to right] posing for a picture with some of the people of the Danzhu community. In the middle row are four men and in the front row are two young women wearing veils with older women at the ends beside them.
Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Brack came to Maryknoll in 1935, after receiving a degree at Holy Cross College. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1939. After ordination Fr. Brack was assigned to the Maryknoll mission in the Wuchow Vicariate, South China. During World War II he remained in China and served first as pastor of the mission in Taiwan and later Chungking. Among his pastoral duties was service to the U.S. military personnel in that area, for which he was awarded the Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service. He was named procurator of the Maryknoll house in Hong Kong in 1946. He returned to the United States in 1948 and because he had a talent with financial matters, he served in several positions for the Society in the United States. -- Rev. McLoughlin was born in Lancashire, England, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1912. He entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College, in 1923, and was ordained in 1935. He was assigned to Wuchow, remaining there throughout the was years. After a brief visit to the U.S. after the war, he returned to Wuchow in 1947. He was expelled from China in 1951. In 1953 he was assigned to Transfiguration parish in Chinatown, New York City, and to Hong Kong in 1961 where he died in 1980. -- Born in Pennsylvania, Fr. Donnelly came to Maryknoll in 1929 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1932 and assigned to Wuchow in South China. In 1940 he was appointed Society Superior for the Wuchow mission. He was imprisoned by the Chinese Communists in 1951 and in 1952 had to leave China for Hong Kong. He served as chaplain for civilian workers in Greenland and later spent many years in Taiwan where he died and was buried.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints 13.6 x 8.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m5738 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-015-09-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5738
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-015-09-0004.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Communities
Group portraits
Time Period
1944-09-19
Place
China
Tanchuk
Source
MKL/China/015/09/0004 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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