Pagan Orphan Becomes China's First Cardinal.Thomas Cardinal Tien, wearing the robes of the late Cardinal Mundelein which wore presented to him, photographed at the Order's Mission House, Techny, Illinois. Behind him is a stained glass window picturing the dispatch of missionaries to China by the founder of the Society.Thomas Cardinal Tien, a native Chinese who entered a Catholic mission as a 9-year-old -orphan, and remained to study for the priesthood and eventually became Bishop of Tsingtao, has made history by being consecrated the first non-Caucasian cardinal in the 1900-year-old history of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also the first member of his order, The Society of the Divine Word, to receive the Rod Rat. March 27, 1946.

Pagan Orphan Becomes China's First Cardinal.Thomas Cardinal Tien, wearing the robes of the late Cardinal Mundelein which wore presented to him, photographed at the Order's Mission House, Techny, Illinois. Behind him is a stained glass window picturing the dispatch of missionaries to China by the founder of the Society.Thomas Cardinal Tien, a native Chinese who entered a Catholic mission as a 9-year-old -orphan, and remained to study for the priesthood and eventually became Bishop of Tsingtao, has made history by being consecrated the first non-Caucasian cardinal in the 1900-year-old history of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also the first member of his order, The Society of the Divine Word, to receive the Rod Rat. March 27, 1946.

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