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 D25/80

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 possible.

Above: "After the July 7 Incident, Cai Ning, the representative of the Vatican to the GMD government, issued a counter-revolutionary directive to bishops across the country, asking Chinese clergy and believers not to oppose the invasion of Japanese imperialism during the Anti-Japanese War and to be willing to become slaves of a conquered nation. This is Cai Ning's counter-revolutionary directive." (七七事变后,罗马教廷驻国民党政府代表蔡宁,向全国主教出发反革命指令,要中国神职人员和教徒,在抗日战争中不要反对日本帝国主义的侵略,甘心做亡国奴。这是蔡宁的反革命指令).

Cai Ning was the Chinese name of Mario Zanin (1890-1958), an Italian Catholic archbishop who served as Apostolic Representative to China and as Apostolic Administrator of Harbin Apostolic District (1934-1946).
The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army. It started the Second Anti-Japanese War.

Below: "The Vatican's representative to the GMD government, Cai Ning (front row, third from left), Bishop Hui Jiliang of the Shanghai Diocese (front row, fourth from left), and other imperialists colluded with the great traitor Wang Jingwei (front row, second from left) to carry out aggressive activities. This is a photo of them together." (罗马教廷驻国民党政府代表蔡宁(前排左三),上海教区主教惠济良(前排左四)等帝国主义分子和大汉奸汪精卫(前排左二)勾结,进行侵略活动。这是他们在一起时的照片).

Hui Jiliang was the Chinese name of Auguste Haouisée, SJ (1877-1948), a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Bishop of Shanghai.

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