Thomas Callanan, 1977

Containers:: Box 1, Folder 11
Scope and content:: Four letters from Irish missionary Thomas Callanan, and a copy of Edward Fisher's book "Mindanao Mission" signed by Callanan, which relates Callanan's experience in the Philippines in WWII during the Japanese occupation.
Biographical / historical:: Fr. Thomas Callanan was born in Moylough, County Galway, Ireland in 1912. He died at Dalgan on September 16, 1987. Callanan received his secondary education at St. Jarlath's College, Tuam and St. Joseph's College, Ballinasloe before arriving at Dalgan Seminary in 1931. He was ordained priest there in 1937. He went to the Philippines in 1938 and spent WWII in Mindanao; in all, he spent 49 years on mission in the Philippines, including spending his last years as chaplain to Reyes Memorial Hospital in Manila.

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