On This Day : Father Richard Ho Lung, Founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, was born in Richmond, St. Mary

On September 17, 1939, Father Richard Ho Lung, the founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, an international Roman Catholic monastic order based in Kingston, Jamaica, was born in Richmond, St Mary. His parents were Chinese, and both were born in Hong Kong but traveled to Jamaica as immigrants. The family was very poor, and […]