Fr. Thomas A. O'Shea with the mandarins at Gaozhou, China, 1921.

This is a photograph of Father O'Shea with the mandarins the day after the raid at Kochow [now Gaozhou]. Father O'Shea wears a black hat. To his rear is Fr. Donovan.; Rev. O'Shea was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. He entered Maryknoll, as its third student, in 1913. He was ordained in 1917. He was assigned to Kochow and later to Wuchow. In 1924 he became Maryknoll procurator in Hong Kong. He later served in various offices in Maryknoll in the U.S. and was later ordained bishop, and appointed Vicar Apostolic of Peng Yang, Korea