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耶稣会士戴公之墓

戴先生讳进贤，号嘉宾，泰西热尔玛尼亚国人。自幼入会真修，传教东来。康熙五十五年奉旨进京，至康熙五十八年十一月二十九日奉上谕：“非通晓历法之人，不能细查微小增减，不觉渐错。戴进贤虽系新来，尚未全晓清汉话语，其历法、算法上，学问甚好，为人亦沉重老实。着放纪理安员缺，钦此。”雍正三年三月二十日奉旨：“戴进贤治理历法，着改授监正加礼部侍郎衔，钦此。”乾隆十一年三月初九日去世，蒙赐帑银二百两、大缎十端，钦此。约计在会五十三年，管理监务二十九年，享寿六十有七。

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Tomb of Father Dai of the Society of Jesus

Father Dai, personal name Jinxian, style name Jiabin, a German from West Europe. From a young age he was initiated into the Society and cultivated in the true faith, and came East to preach. In the fifty-fifth year of the Kangxi reign he was summoned to Beijing; on the twenty-ninth day of the eleventh month in the fifty-eighth year of the Kangxi reign an imperial edict proclaimed: “Those unfamiliar with calendrical studies cannot discover the subtle variations and they gradually err. Although Jinxian Dai has newly arrived and was not fully proficient in Qing Chinese, he was well-versed in calendrical and mathematical studies, and also steady and sincere in character. He is hereby appointed to fill the vacancy left by Kilian Stumpf. Thus decreed.” On the ninth day of the third month in the eleventh year of the Qianlong reign he passed away, and was granted two-hundred taels of silver by the emperor and ten bolts of fine satin. Thus decreed. He was in the Society for about fifty-three years, dedicated twenty-nine years to the management of bureaucratic affairs, and lived to the age of sixty-seven.