A Martyr's Victory In A Spiritual Sense
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Bishop Francis X. Ford was a well educated, enormously gentle man, that
was kicked, beaten, insulted, and surrounded by hatred. All this because of one
mans beliefs. He was born in Brooklyn in 1892. He was the founder of the
Maryknoll Missionaries and was the first bishop of Kwantung, China. H ....
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.... on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into
the war. During this time he distinguished himself by the way he cared for war
refugees. Chinese paid a terrible price during this war with Japan, but even
more costly was a civil war that followed. Bishop Ford exemplified the virtue
of fortitude, by not leaving the war-torn country and staying to try to pursue
good.
During this time of war, many would wonder what was the reason for him
to stay in China, and what was his why to live? In the Nov ....
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