Stories by Maryknoll Mission Archives Staff
Fr. Thomas Barry was assigned to Tsu City from 1946 to 1951, and again from 1956 until his death in 1971. During these periods, Fr. Barry was the pastor to Tsu Catholic Church. He ministered to hundreds of parishioners on a weekly basis, including countless baptisms, marriages, and deaths.
“Most of us long for a kind of connectedness we rarely find…” “But when faced with the opportunity…we shrink from the very engagement we desire and have come so far to find.”I am currently reading Singing to the Dead: A Missioner’s Life among Refugees from Burma by...
A few months ago I discovered that the foundress of the Maryknoll Sisters, Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, made a cookbook! The book was compiled sometime in the 1920s for Maryknoll Missioners going overseas. The idea was to provide them with the knowledge needed to...
The Maryknoll Mission Archives is the official repository for all corporate records and manuscripts produced by the three expressions of Maryknoll: the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers, Maryknoll Sisters, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
Here you will find detailed descriptions (or “finding aids”) of primary sources documenting the lives, mission work, culture, and history of the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers, Maryknoll Sisters, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
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