File 135 - Letters from Fr Joseph J. McAsey SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the Hong Kong mission

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IE IJA MSSN/HONG/135

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Letters from Fr Joseph J. McAsey SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the Hong Kong mission

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  • 30 October 1942 - 16 May 1946 (Creation)

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(10 March 1913-01 March 1991)

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Born: 10 March 1913, Rathgar Road, Rathgar, Dublin City, County Dublin
Entered: 07 September 1931, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 19 May 1945, Zi-Ka-Wei, Shanghai, China
Final Vows: 02 February 1949, Holy Spirit Seminary, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
Died: 01 March 1991, Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin

Macau-Hong Kong Province (MAC-HK)
Part of the Sacred Heart, Limerick community at the time of death
Brother Ted McAsey - RIP 2001
Transcribed HIB to HK : 03 December 1966

Entered as James;
Father was a Civil Servant. Eldest of three, with a brother and sister.
Educated at St Mary’s, Haddington Road, he then went to Belvedere College SJ for eight years.

by 1940 in Hong Kong - Regency
by 1943 at Bellarmine, Zi-ka-Wei, near Shanghai, China (FRA) studying

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A file of letters from Fr Joseph J. McAsey SJ to Irish Fr Provincial concerning the Hong Kong mission.

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2001

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