"A group who attended a five-days retreat at Kaying. Fr. Drought at extreme right, next to him, in black, Fr. Wong, a Chinese priest. The three women (one with rose) in center front sitting are not Chinese but Mauritians, whose native language is French. The headgear is a more stylish form than is worn when working. The Hakka women for centuries have never bound their feet. The house is "seminary" and rectory. All houses here are two-storey". Maryknoll, The Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, was founded in 1911 by Revs. James Anthony Walsh and Thomas Frederick Price to be the main mission outreach of the Roman Catholic Church of the United States. The first group of missioners departed in 1918 for China. Today Maryknoll Priests, Brothers and Sisters are missioned in over 30 countries around the world.
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