"Mary Ann Aldersey (1797–1868) came from a wealthy nonconformist family in London. She studied Chinese under Robert Morrison in London and paid for other women missionaries to go to Malacca. Never an agent of any missionary society, she went to Asia on her own in 1837 and started a school in Surabaya; after the treaty ports opened in 1843 she moved to Ningbo and opened a school for girls, becoming the first Christian missionary woman to serve in China proper. In 1861 she handed the school over to the Church Missionary Society and retired to South Australia."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Mary Ann Aldersey"; see also The Spirit of Missions, Sept. 1847 ("an English lady not connected with any society")
Property, salary, eternity
Views: 388
"After the suppression of the Jesuits, Amiot remained in Beijing. Following the death of François Bourgeois, head of the French mission, in 1792, the aged Amiot often visited the tombs of his Jesuit companions to pray and meditate, and carved their epitaphs; news of the French Revolution so distressed him that his health declined, and from September 1792 he could no longer go. On October 8, 1793, news of King Louis XVI's execution reached him; he celebrated Mass for the deceased king and died that night or the following day, October 9, 1793."
— Wikipedia (after Rochemonteix and Pfister)
Source: Wikipedia, "Jean Joseph Marie Amiot", section "Later life and death"
Property, Bible, Mother Church, Destiny, Heaven
Views: 236