This is a photograph of "Maryknoll Sister's first glimps of Loting [now Luoding]. Left to right Fr. McShane, Srs. Francis, Richard, Patricia and Barbara." The Sister's are standing under the shelter on a boat. Rev. McShane was born in Indiana. He joined Maryknoll in 1912 as a deacon, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1914, the first ordained for Maryknoll. He was assigned to Tungchen in 1919 and to Loting the following year. There he set up an orphanage for abandoned children. In 1927 he contracted smallpox from a dying infant, which brought about his own death. He was buried in front of the Loting parish rectory.
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