Fr. Ryan at the Japanese Mission at Dalian, China, 1937.

This is a photograph of a Fr. Ryan and one of his new Christians at the Japanese Mission in Dalian. Fr. Ryan is dressed traditionally in a cassock and the gentleman next to him wears a suit and tie, with wing tip shoes.; Born in Massachusetts, Fr. Ryan took his First Oath in September of 1930 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 17, 1934. He was assigned to Fushun, Manchuria in 1934. At the outbreak of World War II he was interned by the Japanese and repatriated to the United States on the S.S. Gripsholm. For the duration of the war he served as a chaplain at the Japanese internment camps in Watson, Arkansas. He returned to Japan as pastor of various churches on the northern island of Hokkaido.