Two Maryknoll priests on a river ferry at Jiangmen, China, 1920

This is a photograph of "Fr. McShane [left] and Fr. James E. Walsh on a river ferry." They both wear white pith helmets. There are two other men visible on the boat with them. In the background is another boat passing by.; Born in Maryland, Fr. Walsh graduated from Mt. St. Mary's College at age 19 and worked two years as a timekeeper in a steel mill. He entered the first class of Maryknoll in 1912 and in 1915 became the second priest ordained in the Society. Three years later. 1918, he was assigned to Kwong Tung (present Guangdong), China. Pope Pius XI named Fr. Walsh as the first Bishop of the Vicariate of Kongmoon. He was consecrated a Bishop in 1927 at Shepherd of the Church on Sancian Island the death place of St. Francis Xavier. In 1936, Bishop Walsh was elected second Superior General following the death of Bishop James A. Walsh, the founder of Maryknoll. In 1948 he as asked to return to China to head the Catholic Central Bureau in Shanghai. In 1951 the government closed the bureau. He was arrested in 1959 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 1970 he was released after spending nearly 12 years in prison. -- Rev. McShane was born in Indiana. He joined Maryknoll in 1912 as a deacon, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1914, the first ordained for Maryknoll. He was assigned to Tungchen in 1919 and to Loting the following year. There he set up an orphanage for abandoned children. In 1927 he contracted smallpox from a dying infant, which brought about his own death. He was buried in front of the Loting parish rectory.本数据集收录一张合影照片，画面为麦克沙恩神父（左侧）与詹姆斯·E·沃尔什神父同乘内河渡轮留影，二人皆头戴白色遮阳盔（pith helmet）。渡轮上另有两名同行男子，背景中可见一艘正驶过的其他船只。 詹姆斯·E·沃尔什神父出生于马里兰州，19岁毕业于圣玛丽山学院（Mt. St. Mary's College），随后在钢铁厂担任计时员两年。1912年，他加入玛利诺外方传教会（Maryknoll）第一届学员班；1915年，成为该修会第二位晋铎的神父。三年后，即1918年，他被派驻广东（Kwong Tung，现广东省）。教宗庇护十一世任命其为江门教区代牧区（Vicariate of Kongmoon）首任主教，并于1927年在上川岛（Sancian Island）的教会牧者教堂为其举行主教祝圣礼——该岛亦是圣方济各·沙勿略（St. Francis Xavier）的殉道地。1936年，玛利诺外方传教会创始人詹姆斯·A·沃尔什主教逝世后，沃尔什神父当选为该修会第二任总会长。1948年，他受邀返回中国，主持上海天主教中央局事务；1951年，该机构被当时的政府查封。1959年，他遭到逮捕并被判处20年监禁，1970年在服刑近12年后获释。 麦克沙恩神父出生于印第安纳州，1912年以执事身份加入玛利诺外方传教会（Maryknoll），1914年晋铎成为该修会首位神父。1919年，他被派驻东莞（Tungchen），次年调任罗定（Loting），并在当地为弃婴设立了一所孤儿院。1927年，他因照料一名罹患天花的病危婴儿而感染天花，最终不治身亡，葬于罗定堂区神父楼前。