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Title
Maryknoll priests at a celebrate Mass outdoors at Wuzhou, China, 1949
Creator
Morrisey, Fr
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
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 [left to right] Frs. Ed Moffett, John Drew and Tom Langley celebrating mass outside the chapel. The congregation looks on.
Born in Maine, Fr. Langley came to Maryknoll in 1926 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1937. He was assigned to work in Wuchow [now Wuzhou], China until 1951 when he was jailed by the communists. He was released in 1952 and returned to the United States to do promotion work. H was assigned to Hawaii and chaplain of Thule Air Base in Greenland.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints 25.3 x 20.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-m4701 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-009-07-0003
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m4701
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-009-07-0003.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Catholicism
Religious practice
Group portraits
Time Period
1949
Place
China
Wuchow
Source
MKL/China/009/07/0003 [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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