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Great Catholics of New England James Walsh and the Maryknoll vision
James Anthony Walsh, born 1867 in Cambridge Massachusetts, co founded the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America later known as Maryknoll. He built the organization from Boston to Hawthorne New York and Ossining, guiding its seminary, first mission teams to China and later widening to Korea Philippines Japan Latin America and Africa. He directed missions, founded The Field Afar magazine and Maryknoll Sisters, dying in 1936 as a bishop.
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Maryvknour
New England
James Anthony Walsh
Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
Cambridge
Mass
Walshes
James Anthony
Boston College
Harvard
Boston Diocesan Seminary
Abbe Hogan
Paris
Theophane Venard
Indo-China
Father Andre
Young Walsh
Japan
Sacred Heart Review
Father Walsh
Europe
Boston
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
United States
Church In
America
Montreal
Father Thomas F. Price
North Carolina
Maryknoll
Cardinal Gibbons
Washington
Rome
Father Price
Eternal City
Sacred Congregation of Propaganda
Pope Pius
Hawthorne
N.Y
Francis X. Ford
Ossining
Hudson
China
Korea
Manchuria
Philippines
Maryknollers
Latin America
Africa
Orient
Smith College
Mary Josephine Rogers
Miss Rogers
Pious Society
Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic
Mother Mary Josephine