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Title: Rev. Mark A. Churchill, MM, with a boy at Luoding, China, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
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 Fr. Churchill with a boy who is holding a wicker suitcase on his shoulder. Fr. Ahern holds a book and an umbrella.
Born in Iowa, Fr. Churchill entered Maryknoll in 1920 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1927. During his time in China, he wrote many letters describing life on the Chinese mission. He was expelled from the country by the Communists and returned to the United States in 1952. He spent the time in the US teaching and managing the seminaries run by Maryknoll.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 8.4 x 13.3 cm.
Identifier: impa-m3692 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-MKL-China-004-08-0007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3692
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-MKL-China-004-08-0007.jpg
Subject: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Clergy
Children
Exterior views
Time Period: 1931
Place: China
Loting
Source: MKL/China/004/08/0007 [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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