• Tianzhang He

    (Francisco Rosario)

    Chinese

    耶稣会士何公之墓
    先生讳天章,号起文,系澳门人。自幼入耶稣会。传教四十五年。卒于乾隆元年四月初一日。享寿六十九岁,在会五十年。

    Chinese—English

    Tomb of Father He of the Society of Jesus
    Father He, personal name Tianzhang, style name Qiwen, was a native of Macao. From a young age he was initiated into the Society of Jesus. He preached for forty-five years. He passed away on the first day of the fourth month in the yuan year of the Qianlong reign (1736), at the age of sixty-nine, having been in the Society for fifty years.

    Latin

    D.O.M.

    P[ATER] FRAC[ISCUS] XAV[ERIUS] ÀROSARIO, S[OCIETATIS] I[ESU], COAD[IUTOR] FORM[ATUS], MACAENSIS, SINA, EXACTIS XLV AN[N]IS IN MISSIONE ET L IN SOCIET[ATE], OPERARIUS AC RELIGIOS[US] FIDELIS OBIIT PEKINI DIE XI MAII A[NNO] C[HRISTI] MDCCXXXVI. AETATIS SUAE LXIX.

    Latin—English

    To God Most Good and Most Great
    Father Francisco Xavier à Rosario, of the Society of Jesus, a formed coadjutor, a Macanese, a Chinese, having spent forty years in the mission and fifty in the society, as a worker religious and faithful, he died in Beijing on the eleventh day of May in the Year of Christ 1736, at the age of sixty-nine.