From Navan to China - The Story of a Chinese Irishman, narrates the adventures and trials of Fr. Aedan McGrath's missionary life, up to the time he was expelled from China. The Columban priest played a major role in spreading the Legion of Mary all over that vast land.. Controversy, trials and tribulations followed him from the day he arrived in Hanyang. He experienced harassment, floods, haphazard accomodation, the absence of proper transport and relative poverty. Progressing his missionary work always proved problematic.