Text transcribed from caption: #4802 EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY SISTERS ENROUTE TO CHINA BOSTON -- Four sisters of the Protestant Episcopal Order of St. Anne, Arlington, Mass., former prisoners of the Japanese at Bilibid and other infamous prisons in the Philippine Islands, are shown at a rail depot here before entraining for their return trip to Wuchang, China. Sister Auguste (second from left) was among the group that welcomed Gen. Douglas MacArthur on his return to the islands. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BO’C-BOS-BS-11B6-A-E)

1946

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 4 x 5 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Order of St. Anne.
Bilibid Prison (Manila, Philippines)
Episcopal Church--Missions--China.

Nuns--Massachusetts--Boston.
Missions--China--Wuhan.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisons and prisoners, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
World War, 1939-1945--Philippines.
Returned missionaries--Philippines.
Women missionaries--Massachusetts--Boston.

Massachusetts
Boston.
China
Wuhan.
Philippines.
Boston (Mass.)
North and Central America--United States--Massachusetts--Suffolk--Boston

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PHS staff unsuccessfully attempted to identify the full name of "Sister Auguste."

Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. 4802; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_4802a

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