This is a photograph of "Father Cunneen with three pagan children of Wuchow [now Wuzhou], China." Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Cunneen entered Maryknoll in 1923 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1932. After ordination he was assigned to Wuchow. He returned to the United States in 1941 and became a Navy Chaplain. In 1945, he returned to mission in Wuchow, during the war years. He was later assigned to Hawaii and teaching in the minor seminary.
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