BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE

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1930

September 18

Born in Washington, D.C.

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1930

October 5

Baptized at the Holy Name Parish Church 

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1944

June 9

Graduates from Grade School, Holy Name School, Washington

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1944

September 13

Enters St. Charles Minor Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland

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1952

June 5

Obtains A.B. Philosophy, Maryknoll College, Glenn Ellyn, Illinois

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1953

January 7

Arrives in Belgium to start formation at the Centre Vincent Lebbe, the Seminary of the Société des Auxiliaires des Missions at Kessel-lo and study theology (Schola Minor) at Louvain 

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1957

May 29

Writes letter to His Superior, Fr. Dieudonné Bourguignon, which almost led to the cancellation of his ordination

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1957

June 29

Ordained priest of the Diocese of Liège at St. Martin’s Church, Washington, D.C., by Bishop John M. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington

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1957

December 8

Arrives in Korea and begins priestly-missionary work in Pusan

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1958

January 20

Passes out while celebrating Mass, eventually diagnosed to be afflicted with hepatitis

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1959

April 

Returns to the United States, upon advised by Bishop Choi, for full recovery

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1961

March 

Establishes Korean Relief, Inc., later called Asian Relief, Inc., a fundraising operation in Washington, D.C. (Fundraising has expanded to Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and France)

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1961

December 

Returns with Bishop Choi to Korea to resume his missionary work.
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1962
June  
Becomes Parish Priest of Song-do in Pusan.
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1963
August
Starts Operation Hanky, a cottage industry embroidery program, in Pusan to give work to some 3,000 women in the slums.
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1964
August 15
Founds the Pomohwe or the Society of Orphan-Mothers, seed of the future Mariahwe or the Sisters of Mary, and the family-unit orphanage
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1965
December 21
Opens formally the family unit orphanages receiving the 50 babies and children below 10 years old coming from 2 catholic orphanages in Pusan
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1966
July 1
Pomohwe (Orphans Mothers) now begins to be called officially as Mariahwe (Sisters of Mary).
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1966
August 16
Opens first dispensaries in Pusan, one in the slums of Amidong and another in Amnamdong.
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1966
Spring
Publishes the book “The Starved and the Silent”.
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1967
June 12
Blessing of the new complex building for the use of the Sisters of Mary and the children of their family-unit orphanages.
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1968
Spring
Publishes the book “Poverty: Sign of our Times”.
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1968
December 10
Builds the Amidong Middle School for free education of children in Pusan.
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1969
July 1
Takes over operation of the Kuhoso Sanatorium (Beggars Hospice) in Pusan.
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1970
April 10
Begins the first Boystown Program in Pusan with the acceptance of 300 vagrant boys in the Amnamdong School.
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1970
October 25
Builds the first Sisters of Mary (Mercy) Hospital in Korea; 120-bed full-service hospital totally free for the poor in Pusan.
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1972
December
Builds second Boystown in Pusan.
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1973
March 1
Opens the Boystown Elementary School in Pusan.
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1974
March 1
Opens the Boystown Middle School in Pusan.
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1975
January 1
Opens the first Boystown Program in Seoul.
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1975
May 28
Receives the Dongbaeg Medal of the Order of Civil Merit from the Government of Korea for eighteen years of philanthropic service to the people of Korea.
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1976
March 1
Opens Boystown Technical High School in Pusan.
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1976
May 16
Receives the National Award – Korea’s highest civilian award for contribution to the education of underprivileged children in Korea.
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1977
August 15
Inaugurates the Boystown Program in Seoul.
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1978
July
Inaugurates the Girlstown Program in Pusan.
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1981
January 6
Takes over management and operation of Kaengsaengwon, the Seoul City-Government sponsored camp for 1,800 destitute and homeless men.
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1981
May 10
Starts a group of men (later to evolve as the Brothers of Christ) totally dedicated to be of service to the homeless men in Seoul.
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1982
June 29
Builds the second Sisters of Mary Hospital (Doty Memorial) in Korea, 120 bed full-service hospital totally free for the poor in Seoul.
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1983
August 30
Receives the 1983 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding.
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1985
July 15
Opens a free Medical Program for poor tuberculosis patients at the government-owned Quezon Institute in Manila, Philippines.
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1985
August 15
Receives the first group of children for their first Girlstown-Boystown Program in Manila, Philippines.
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1988
August 15
Inaugurates the newly completed Boystown / Girlstown Complex in Manila with Jaime Cardinal Sin officiating.
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1988
August 25
Receives the “Mother Teresa Award” given by Manila Jaycees.
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1989
June 2
Inaugurates the Sisters of Mary Charity Pavilion of the Quezon Institute.
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1989
November 23
Invested by Pope John Paul II with the ecclesiastical distinction of Honorary Prelate (Monsignor), Manila, Philippines.
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1990
February 1
Investiture Ceremony, Manila, Philippines as Right Reverend Monsignor.
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1990
August 22
Inaugurates Boystown/Girlstown Complex in Cebu, Philippines.
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1990
September 12
Arrives in Mexico with two members of the Sisters of Mary to begin the Boystown/Girlstown Program in Chalco, Mexico.
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1991
July 23
Inaugurates the new Boystown Complex in Silang, Cavite, Philippines.
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1991
September
Publishes the book “To Live is Christ” The Sisters of Mary Book of Spiritualitys.
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1991
October 7
Inaugurates the Boystown/Girlstown Complex in Chalco, Mexico.
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1992
March 16
Died from ALS complications in Manila, Philippines.
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