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- Title
- General MacArthur.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-30828 GENERAL MACARTHUR One of America’s greatest soldiers in religious setting. At top left, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who died in Washington, D.C., at 84, is shown in 1951 as he reviewed the annual parade of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. On that day he greeted some 100,00 children of more than 300 Protestant churches. At top right, the strength of the man is displayed in a portrait taken during his years in Pacific areas. Below, General MacArthur is shown in 1955 when he received an “Award of Merit Extraordinary” from the then Protestant Episcopal Bishop Francis Eric Bloy of Los Angeles. The Episcopalian hero of three great wars was cited for “distinguished service to the church of God as a Christian statesman and soldier.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RBT-4B-64-W)
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1951
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964--Death and burial., Brooklyn Sunday School Union., MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Generals--United States., Parades--New York (State)--New York.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., New York (State), New York., Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. P-30828; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-30828a
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:348424
- Title
- School named for heroic Maryknoll bishop.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: C-30844 SCHOOL NAMED FOR HEROIC MARYKNOLL BISHOP BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Honors for a Maryknoll pioneer in the Chinese mission field. The Bishop Francis X. Ford High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., is named for the heroic missionary who died in a Communist prison camp in 1952. This mural of Bishop Ford is shown to school students by Father Bernard F. Meyer, M.M., one of the first four Maryknollers to go to the mission field. In 1918 he accompanied Bishop Ford; Bishop James Edward Walsh, now imprisoned in Red China; and the late Father Thomas F. Price to China. All were priests at the time of their first mission assignment. Father Meyer is currently stationed at Maryknoll headquarters, Maryknoll, N.Y. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-NY-4B-64-W)
- Creator Name(s)
- Religious News Service. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, April 6, 1964, April 6, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)--Students., Catholic Church., Catholic Foreign Missionary Society of America., Meyer, Bernard Fr., 1891-, Catholic Church. Diocese of Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Ford, Francis Xavier, 1892-1952.
- Topical Subject(s)
- High school students--New York (State)--New York., Mosaics--New York (State)--New York., High school boys--New York (State)--New York., Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church., Communism and Christianity--China., Missionaries--China., Martyrs--China.
- Geographic subjects
- New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., China., China., China., Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 103, image no. C-30844; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_C-30844
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:348352