"The Italian Jesuit Lazzaro Cattaneo (1560–1640) joined Matteo Ricci at Shaozhou in 1594 and in 1598 accompanied him on his first journey to Peking, where they failed to gain an imperial audience and left two months later. In 1606, while Cattaneo was in Macao, a rumour spread that the Jesuits were conspiring with the Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese to massacre the Chinese in Macao, conquer China by force and make Cattaneo emperor; Chinese residents fled, and the viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi cut off Macao's trade and food supplies. Only after officials summoned Cattaneo and inspected the churches, college and hospital was the rumour shown to be false. He went on to open missions in Shanghai (1608) and Hangzhou, settled in Hangzhou from 1622, and died there in 1640."
— Wikipedia (after the Macao Encyclopedia and others)
Source: Chinese Wikipedia, "郭居静" (sections on the 1606 Cattaneo affair and his mission); English Wikipedia, "Lazzaro Cattaneo"
"In 1630 Johann Adam Schall von Bell was sent to Beijing to work with Xu Guangqi on reforming the Chinese calendar, producing the Chongzhen calendar, which predicted solar and lunar eclipses more accurately. Under the Shunzhi Emperor he became a trusted counsellor and director of the Imperial Observatory. In 1664 he was accused by Yang Guangxian and imprisoned with Ferdinand Verbiest and other Jesuits; he suffered a stroke in prison and was condemned to death, but after an earthquake the Jesuits were pardoned. He died on 15 August 1666 and was buried in Beijing's Zhalan Cemetery."
"The Portuguese Jesuit Tomás Pereira (1646–1708) was summoned to Beijing in 1672 and served at the court of the Kangxi Emperor for more than three decades, renowned as a musician, clockmaker and interpreter and appointed the emperor's first music teacher. In 1689, with Jean-François Gerbillon, he served as interpreter and adviser in the Sino-Russian negotiations at Nerchinsk. In gratitude for the missionaries' service, Kangxi issued the Tolerance Decree of 1692, easing restrictions on Christian practice."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Thomas Pereira"
權柄,靈魂,順從
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"The American Episcopal priest John Gillespie Magee (1884–1953) graduated from Yale in 1906 and from 1912 served the Episcopal mission in Nanjing. During the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937 he chaired the Nanking Committee of the International Red Cross and filmed the atrocities of Japanese troops with a 16mm camera; the films were smuggled out of Nanjing and shown to foreign governments as evidence. His eldest son, John Gillespie Magee Jr., later wrote the famous poem "High Flight.""
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "John Magee (missionary)"
Prayer, strength, God, perseverance
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"The French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730) was one of the first six Jesuits sent to China by Louis XIV. Arriving in Beijing in 1688, he and Jean-François Gerbillon taught the Kangxi Emperor mathematics and astronomy. He devoted himself to the I Ching, seeking points of contact between the Chinese classics and the Bible, and in 1701 sent a diagram of the I Ching hexagrams to the German mathematician Leibniz. He died in Beijing in 1730."
— Wikipedia
Source: Wikipedia, "Joachim Bouvet"
Debate, Practice, Love
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"I am in dead earnest about this matter; for I fully realize that God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation, and that he has commanded us to make it known among all nations."
— Matthew Tyson Yates
Source: Letter of 1877, in Charles E. Taylor, The Story of Yates the Missionary (1898)