A photograph of Fr. Romaniello, and Fr. Edmund Toomey and J. Leo Foley, MM with a group of people. There are baskets of apples that were picked. Born in Italy, Monsignor Romaniello came to the United States when he was five years old. He entered Maryknoll in 1917 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1928. He was assigned to Wuchow, Kweilin in 1935 where he encountered civil unrest and was forced to depart in 1951. He spent the later years of his life working with the Catholic Relief Services in Hong Kong. He became an international figure as was referred to as the "Noodle Priest" because he fed the refugees in Hong Kong with noodles made with relief supplies. -- Rev. Foley was born in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. At the age of eighteen he saw action in France during WWI. He entered The Venard, Maryknoll's Apostolic College in 1923,and to the Major Seminary in 1926 and was ordained at Maryknoll, New York in 1932. He was assigned that year to Wuchow, as one of the pioneers of that mission. In 1937 he succumbed to typhoid fever and died in a hospital at Kweilin (Guilin). -- Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Toomey came to Maryknoll in 1921 and was ordained to the priesthood on January 26, 1930. His first assignment was to Wuchow, China in 1930. In 1936 he moved to Kweilin. In 1940 his health brought him back to the United States. He returned to China briefly but eventually served the people of Hawaii.
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