Ang Totoong Mukha ng Inuusig ngunit Umuunlad na Iglesia ni Cristo sa China

 

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN CHINA

Mga Martir ng Iglesia sa China, Inaalala ngayong araw!

Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs

Si Santo Augustine Zhao Rong ay isang Intsik.  Siya ay isang diocesan priest na pinatay ng gobyerno kasama ng may 119 niyang mga kasamahan noong 1815.  Ilan sa mga martir ay isang 18 años na binata, si Chi Zhuzi. Habang tinatapyas ng patalim ang kanyang kanang braso habang siya'y binabalatan ng buhay ay nagwika: "Bawat bahagi ng aking laman, bawat patak ng aking dugo ay mangungusap sa inyo na ako'y Kristiano."  

San Augustin Zhao Rong at mga kasama, ipanalangin niyo kami.

Source: Catholic Culture

Augustine Zhao Rong and companions
Christianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Depending on China's relations with the outside world, Christianity over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly.

The 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930. Most of them (eighty-seven) were born in China and were children, parents, catechists or laborers, ranging from nine years of age to seventy-two. This group includes four Chinese diocesan priests.

The thirty-three foreign-born martyrs were mostly priests or women religious, especially from the Order of Preachers, the Paris Foreign Mission Society, the Friars Minor, Jesuits, Salesians and Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.

Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (Paris Foreign Mission Society) to his martyrdom in Beijing. Augustine was baptized and not long after was ordained as a diocesan priest. He was martyred in 1815.

Beatified in groups at various times, these 120 martyrs were canonized in Rome on October 1, 2000.

Excerpted from Saint of the Day, Leonard Foley, O.F.M.

Papa, nanawagan sa Tsina na maging tapat sa Iglesia ni Cristo

Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Sa kanyang panalangin ng Oegina Caeli kahapon, si Papa Benedicto XVI ay nanalangin para sa mga kaanib ng Iglesia sa Tsina. Matatandaan na ang mga Instsik na kaanib ng Iglesia ni Cristo ay nagdiriwang ng kapistahan ng "Mary Help of Christians ng may taimtim na debosyon sa Mahal na Ina.

Ang nasabing debosyon ay ipinagdiriwang sa Shrine ng Sheshan sa Shanghai.

Mary, Virgin most faithful, support the path of Chinese Catholics, render their prayer them ever more intense and precious in the eyes of the Lord, and advance the affection and the participation of the universal Church in the journey of the Church in China", panalangin ng Santo Papa.

Dalangin din ng Santo Papa na ang sa pamamagitan ng kanilang kababaang loob ay maikalat ang kagalakan sa Muling Nabuhay na Panginoon at maging tapat sa kanyang Iglesia at ang kahalili ni San Pedro at mamuhay ng may pakikiisa sa pananampalatayang ating isinasabuhay bilang mga Kristianong Katoliko.

Binati rin ng Santo Papa ang may 20 libong tao sa St. Peter's Square at sa mga "libong miyembro ng Italian Movement for Life"

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