The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation

解放前天主教会反革命复辟活动的罪行
Jiefangqian Tianzhu jiaohui fangeming fubi huodongde zuixing
The counter-revolutionary and restorationist crimes of Catholicism before Liberation
mid 1960s
Publisher unknown
54x38 cm.
BG D25/78

A two-part series detailing the counterrevolutionary activities and "crimes" perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Mission in China before and after 1949. Both series are incomplete: the first part lacks the opening sheets; the second part lacks at least one sheet, and possibly more at the end.
Due to this, it is impossible to indicate when the series were published, where, by whom, and for what specific purpose. The last evil deed discussed, at the end of part two, dates from July 1965, during the "Four Clean Ups" movement (四清运动). This suggests that the two series were published some time in the mid-1960s.
The names of the foreign missionaries have been identified as far as possibile.

At the top, “Xu Sanyuan, a Catholic from Xiaoqiaofeng, Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province, joined the revolution and returned to Xiaoqiaofeng to work. He was killed by the counter-revolutionary armed forces and the imperialist missionary Sha Zhilin and hung up for public display. The head of Xu Sanyuan is hung at the top of the photo.” (陕西靖边县小桥丰田天主教徒许三元参加革命后回小桥丰工作,被反革命武装杀害,并田帝国主义传教士沙智林悬首示众。照片的上端挂是许三月的头).

Below, “In the spring of 1900, Belgian imperialist Han Moli (former Mongolian bishop) led the counter-revolutionary armed forces to seize the land of the peasants in Xingyilou Village. The peasants resisted under the leadership of Gao Zhannian, and Han Moli ordered his minions to kill Gao Zhannian and nine others and throw their bodies into the Yellow River.” (一九00春,比利时帝国主义分子韩默理(前蒙古主教)指挥反革命武装强奋兴义楼村农民的土地。农民在高占年的领导下进行反抗,韩点理指使他的爪牙把高占年等九人残害,并把尸体投入黄河).

Han Moli was the Chinese name of the Dutch missionary and bishop Ferdinand Hamer (1840-1900) who was killed during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

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