From ENS-It looks like a tiny, old blanket with deer on it. Nothing to warrant a pause or second glance.
Yet that small Mongolian saddle blanket, draped across a chair in Diocese of Pittsburgh Bishop Dorsey McConnell’s childhood home for decades, has crossed oceans multiple times, first from the hands of one of the world’s most famous political figures.
In September 1945, Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong had to fly from his base in Yunnan province to a tense conference with General Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Party in Chongqing. This was about a month after Imperial Japan announced its surrender, one of the major actions to end World War II. For a moment, the United States was an ally of China’s against Japan.
More here-
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2017/12/22/pittsburgh-bishop-treks-to-china-bearing-a-sentimental-and-historically-significant-gift/
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