Word: walsh
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From St. Francis Xavier, awaiting his lonely death on an island off the China coast in 1552, to Bishop James Walsh, suffering in a Chinese Communist jail in 1960; from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Inner Space, Part II of The Mysterious Deep, with Swiss Oceanographer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Lieut. Don Walsh, holders of the world deep-diving record...
When the Communists took over eleven years ago. Bishop Walsh fell under constant surveillance and expected arrest momentarily. But it did not come. Once, when he was staying with a group of Chinese priests, the police arrived to arrest them. Bishop Walsh, assuming that he was included, packed his bag and went out to join the others. When the police turned him back, according to a colleague. Bishop Walsh was so angry that he threw his hat on the ground and jumped on it. In 1955, the Communists offered to repatriate him along with 21 other Americans, but James...
Gymnastics at Dawn. Along with Bishop Walsh, 13 Chinese priests were sentenced in Shanghai to terms from five to 25 years. And there was one life sentence-for Bishop Ignatius Kung Ping-mei of Soochow. Slender, smiling Kung Ping-mei, 59, has all the qualifications to make himself hated by the Reds. Born to a wealthy Roman Catholic family in a small town near Shanghai, he studied for the priesthood in Shanghai's French Jesuit College at Zikawei, where he learned to speak perfect French and imperfect English and to understand Westerners. Father Kung specialized in education, showed notable...
...Secretary of State Herter moved last week to make "the strongest possible protest" against the sentences. But it is doubtful whether Bishops Walsh or Kung will ever emerge from prison. But his old friends in Hong Kong are more proud than sad at the news of his trial. Said one: "Bishop Walsh wanted to share the agony and the suffering of the Chinese priests. Don't feel sorry for him. He's where he wants to be, doing what he wants...