This is a photograph of the interior of a chapel at Kaying [now Jiaying] at Chistmas. "The drapes in this picture were a gift from mandarins, and other wealthy pagans, I [Fr. Murphy] believe, on the occasion of the twenty fifth anniversary of the Father Henry Vacquerel, who came here in 1877, who built this chapel, and several others in the prefecture and who is 82 this year, and my next door neighbor [ten miles]." Rev. Murphy was born in Montreal, Canada. He joined Maryknoll in 1919 and was ordained in 1927. He was assigned first to Kaying, returning to the U.S. for decennial leaves in 1937 and 1947. Like many others he was forced to leave China in 1951, later working in Taiwan.
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