Fr. Cornelius Tierney BD (1872-1931) was an Irish missionary priest who joined the Maynooth Mission to China, he died after being kidnapped by Chinese Communist bandits and held in captivity in 1931. Cornelius was born in Clones, Co. Monaghan, in 1875, he studied at St. Macartan's College, Monaghan, before going to Maynooth College to study for the priesthood. Ordained in Maynooth for the Diocese of Clogher in 1899 taught English and Classics in St. Macartan's, College, and from 1911 he worked as a curate in St. Joseph's, Ballyshannon.
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