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Title: Indian Cardinal at nun departure ceremony.
Description: Cardinal Gracias presides over missionary departure ceremony for 12 Medical Mission Sisters in Philadelphia.
Creator Name(s): Medical Mission Sisters. (publisher)
Date Created: 1955, October 16, 1955, October 16, 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Medical Mission Sisters., Catholic Church--Missions., Gracias, Valerian, 1900-1978.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nuns as nurses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Missions, Medical--Southeast Asia., Missions, Medical--Africa., Missions, Medical--South America., Rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Cardinals--India--Bombay., Women missionaries
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Southeast Asia., Africa., South America., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., India, Bombay., Philadelphia (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. C-18250; 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-18250
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:150114

Title: Medical Mission Sisters press release.
Description: Press release regarding a missionary departure ceremony for 12 Medical Mission Sisters in Philadelphia.
Creator Name(s): Medical Mission Sisters. (publisher)
Date Created: 1955, October 17, 1955, October 17, 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Medical Mission Sisters., Catholic Church--Missions., Gracias, Valerian, 1900-1978.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nuns as nurses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Missions, Medical--Southeast Asia., Missions, Medical--Africa., Missions, Medical--South America., Rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Cardinals--India--Bombay., Women missionaries.
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Southeast Asia., Africa., South America., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., India, Bombay., Philadelphia (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. C-18250; 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-18250_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149703

Title: First nun named to Surgeons College.
Description: Sister Mary Benedict Young, M.D., a medical mission sister, becomes first nun named a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons.
Creator Name(s): Riley, George. (photographer)
Date Created: 1955, September 6, 1955, September 6, 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., International College of Surgeons., International College of Surgeons. Annual Congress (20th : 1955 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Catholic Medical Mission Board., Catholic Church--Missions--Bangladesh--Dhakka., Young, Mary Benedict.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nuns--Bangladesh--Dhakka., Women surgeons--Bangladesh--Dhakka., Women missionaries--Bangladesh--Dhakka., Missions, Medical--Bangladesh--Dhakka.
Geographic subjects: Bangladesh, Dhakka., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Bangladesh, Dhakka., Bangladesh, Dhakka., Bangladesh, Dhakka., Bangladesh, Dhakka., Philadelphia (Pa.), Dhaka (Bangladesh), North and Central America--United States--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Asia--Bangladesh--Dhaka
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. C-18111; 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-18111
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:148637

Title: Medical Mission Sisters departure ceremony, October 16, 1955.
Description: The list of the names of the 12 Medical Mission Sisters who are being celebrated in a departure ceremony in Philadelphia, October 16, 1955. The sisters are leaving the United States to begin their missionary work in India, Pakistan, Africa, and South America.
Creator Name(s): Medical Mission Sisters. (publisher)
Date Created: 1955, October 16, 1955, October 16, 1955
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Medical Mission Sisters., Catholic Church--Missions.
Topical Subject(s): Nuns--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Nuns as nurses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Missions, Medical--Southeast Asia., Missions, Medical--Africa., Missions, Medical--South America., Rites and ceremonies--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Women missionaries.
Geographic subjects: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Southeast Asia., Africa., South America., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., Philadelphia (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Box 55, image no. C-18250; 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-18250_03
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:149694

Title: Medical mission Sisters turn printers.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #C-4479 MEDICAL MISSION SISTERS TURN PRINTERS PHILADELPHIA -- Practical work is no stranger to the Medical Mission Sisters who work in the Order’s motherhouse in the Fox Chase district here. In its printing plant is printed all the stationery and literature necessary for the promotion of the Mission Sisters’ work. Feeding the press is Sister Mary Winifred, behind her Sister Mary Andrew. The Order was founded in 1925 by Mother Anna Dengel, M.D. It aids in extending medical science to the women of the Far East, particularly in India where the sisters have three hospitals, all staffed by Mission Sisters. There are 60 postulants and novices at the Mother House here, many of whom will serve as doctors, nurses and technicians or in other professions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JD-PHIL-MES-9B-6-C)
Date Created: 1946
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Medical Mission Sisters.
Topical Subject(s): Missionaries, Medical--India., Nuns--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Publishers and publishing., Religious literature--Distribution., Women missionaries--India., Missionaries--India.
Geographic subjects: India., Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., India., India., Philadelphia (Pa.), North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Philadelphia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-4479; 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-4479
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:360307

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