Fr. Robert J. Cairns, MM, at a baptism ceremony, Xinchang, China, 1927.

This is a photograph of Fr. Robert J. Cairns, MM, after the baptism ceremony in Sun Chong [now Xinchang]. Women appear standing and sitting with young children. Fr. Cairns is standing in the middle rear of the group.; Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty-four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. During WWII he was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941