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Title	The Feast of the Assumption at the Catholic Mission at Xinchang, China, 1917
Description	This is a photograph of "the Catholic Mission at Sunchong [now Xingchang] for the Feast of the Assumption. Women, upstairs on verandale, men and boys and a few ladies downstairs. Seated, left Rev. John H. Murray, right Rev. Robert J. Cairns."; Rev. Murray was born in Cambridge, MA. He entered Maryknoll in 1914 and was ordained in 1921. He was assigned to Kwangsi, South China, where he remained until 1927. Afterwards he worked in Hawaii. -- Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941
Subject	Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Clergy Catholicism
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Sunchong [now Xingchang]
Geographic subject (country)	China
Coverage date	1917-08-15
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1917-08-15
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	Photographic prints 28.5 x 22.8 cm.
Legacy record ID	impa-m6083
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
Part of repository	Maryknoll Mission Archives
File	MKL/China/018/08/0007
Rights	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593; Maryknoll Mission Archives
Access conditions	http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/593
Repository name	Maryknoll Mission Archives
Repository address	Maryknoll Mission Archives, PO. Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y 10545-0305
Repository email	archives@maryknoll.org
Filename	IMP-MKL-China-018-08-0007
Archival file	impa_Volume32/IMP-MKL-China-018-08-0007.tiff

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