IRISH WILLOW "ASHORE IN GREECE 1966.

We joined the SYCAMORE in New Orleans and paid off in Gibraltar after doing a round trip.  
We were in a few places in India, including Calcutta and Madras, mostly with  Famine relief grain and flour, a lot of which was left rotting on the quayside.
L/R-J.KENNEDY, T.RYAN, FATHER THOMAS, ANDY, C.LOWTH, T.HANRAHAN, AND 
FATHER JIM McFERRAN (ORDER OF SALESIANS) 

CORMAC LOWTH 1965
Jim Mc Ferran was a great man who had gone out to India and had started several Schools and a 
Leper hospital and farm. He told me he was sent out there with very little and had sent for a few Irish nuns to help as teachers.  The local rich Indians loved to get an Irish Catholic education for their kids and he charged them according to their means to fund the projects.  He brought us on a tour of Madras including a visit to the tomb of St Thomas the Apostle at Mylapore.  
It seems that St. Thomas was murdered there and there are still Christians there who descend from those he converted.  He is also revered as a Hindu Saint.