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Father
Auguste Chapdelaine (Chinese name: Ma Lai) (
February 6,
1814 -
February 29,
1856) was a
French Christian missionary of the Paris Society of Foreign Missions.
Biography
He was born in
La Rochelle-Normande, France. He left France in
1852 to join the Catholic mission in the
Guangxi province of
China.
After a stay in
Guangzhou, he moved to
Guiyang, capital of the
Guizhou province, in the spring of
1854. In December, he went, together with
Lu Tingmei, to
Yaoshan village,
Xilin county of Guangxi, where he met the local Catholic community of around 300 people. He celebrated his first
mass there on December 8, 1854. He was arrested and thrown into the Xilin county prison ten days after his arrival, and was released after sixteen or eighteen days of captivity.
Following personal threats, he went back to Guizhou in early
1855, and came back to Guangxi in December of the same year. He was denounced on
February 22, 1856, by Bai San, a relative of a new convert, while the local tribunal was on holiday. He was arrested in Yaoshan, together with other Chinese Catholics, by orders of
Zhang Mingfeng, the new local
mandarin on
February 25, 1856. He was severely beaten and locked into a small iron cage, which was hung at the gate of the jail. He was already dead when he was beheaded.
Opium War
Under French diplomatic pressure, the mandarin was later demoted. This act, the "Father Chapdelaine Incident", was used as the pretext for the French involvement, following
Britain, in the
Second Opium War (1856-
1860).
The Chinese version of article 6 in the Sino-French
Peking Convention, signed at the end of the war, gave Christians the right to spread their faith in China and to French missionaries to hold property.
Recognition and controversy
August Chapdelaine was
beatified in
1900. He was
canonized on
October 1,
2000, by
Pope John Paul II, together with 120 Christians
martyrs who had died in China between the 17th and 20th century.
On October 3, 2000,
Xinhua News Agency reacted to the canonization by issuing a press release, painting a very negative portrait of Father Chapdelaine.
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