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Title
Rev. F.J Connors at Catholic Mission at Beijie, Jiangmen China, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued
1937-05-05
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 "Rev. Connors M.M., Director of Leprosarium at Catholic Mission at Pakkai [now Beijie] at Kongmoon [now Jiangmen], in the Delta Area of the West River. Rev. Connors and a Filipino Doctor [a nephew of Gen. Aquialdo] had the job of treating over 200 cases of Leprosy in their colony. The Lepers are each given the equivalent of three cents [u.s. money] a day for subsistence."
Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Connors was ordained to the priesthood in 1927 and was then assigned to Kongmoon, South China. After language study he was sent to assist in the Kochow Mission. While working there he visited the leprosarium at Sheklung. He was immediately attracted to the work which he was later to devote his life. He taught English at the Kochow Sacred Heart School and then assisted at Yeungkong. In 1933 he was assigned to the apostolate for lepers, a large colony of whom led a precarious existence in a cemetery outside Sunwui. He spent eleven years in China, five of them with victims of Hansen's disease.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 6.5 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier
impa-m3738 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-004-10-0001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3738
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-004-10-0001.jpg
Subject
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Missionary work
Portraits
Time Period
1937-05-05
Place
China
Kongmoon
Source
MKL/China/004/10/0001 [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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