This is a photograph of Maryknoll priests with Mr. and Mrs. Tse Yan and family. Back row left to right, Fr. Cairns, Bp. Dunn, Fr. Cashman, Bp. Valtorta [Hong Kong], Bp. Walsh, Fr. Gresnicht, Fr. Keller, Fr. McDonnell and Fr. Bauer. Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941. -- Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fr. Bauer came to Maryknoll in 1931 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1938. He was assigned to China where he served for more than thirteen years in parish duties as well as a teacher in the minor seminary in Kweilin. In 1939 he began a career in journalism as the editor of the China Missionary Bulletin, a position he held until 1952. At the same time, he was China correspondent for the NCWC News Service. He returned to the US in 1952 and became Assistant Editor of the Field Afar. --
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