Background
Edward J. Galvin was born at Newcestown, County Cork, Ireland on 23 November 1882.
bishop theologian Catholic priest
Edward J. Galvin was born at Newcestown, County Cork, Ireland on 23 November 1882.
He was ordained a Catholic priest at Street Patrick"s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, in 1909 for his home diocese of Cork. He spent his first three years as a priest "on loan" to the diocese of Brooklyn, New New York In February 1912, French
"Ned" Galvin left Brooklyn for China.
He went first to Toronto to join French Fraser and together they traveled from Vancouver to Shanghai on the Empress of India.
In 1916 he returned to Ireland to found a society of missionary priests dedicated to the conversion of China, the Missionary Society of Saint Columban. On 4 September 1916 he met a young professor from the Maynooth seminary, French
John Blowick, at French Tom Ronayne"s lodgings in Monkstown, County Dublin.
On 10 October 1916 they received permission from the Irish hierarchy to establish a "mission house for the training of Irish missionaries for China." After a brief period promoting the Society in Ireland, Edward Galvin left for the United States. in 1917 to establish the Society there. He returned to Ireland to lead the first band of his missionaries to China (1920). From his arrival in China until his expulsion in 1952, Galvin would have experienced some good years, but difficulties and dangers predominated: a corrupt Chinese government, local warlords and banditry, floods, drought, the Japanese invasion.
He survived the rigors of World World War II, but the end of the war did not mean an end to conflicts.
In 1947 he wrote "the peop has gone from medical The war was bad, but post-war problems are the devil entirely."
Expelled from China he returned to his native Ireland in 1953 and retired to Dalgan Park, Navan, County Meath, broken in spirit.
Quotations: "the peop has gone from medical The war was bad, but post-war problems are the devil entirely.".