


Lingua Lapidum
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Lingua Lapidum
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Younian Mai
(Paulus de Mesquita)
Chinese:
耶稣会士麦公之墓
麦先生,讳有年,号积德,泰西博尔都噶尔国人也。自幼入会真修,于雍正四年岁次丙午入中国传教,在会二十年。于已酉年二月初六日卒于京都,年三十六岁。
Chinese – English:
Tomb of Father Mai of the Society of Jesus
Father Mai of the Society of Jesus, given name Younian, style name Jide, was a native of the country of Portugal in the Far West. From his youth, he entered the Society and devoted himself to true cultivation. In the fourth year of the Yongzheng reign (1726), he entered China to preach. He was in the Society for twenty years. He passed away in the capital (Beijing) on the sixth day of the second month in the jǐyǒu year (March 5, 1729), at the age of thirty-six.
Latin
D. O. M.
P [ATER] PAULUS DE MESQVITA LUSITAN [US], SOC [IETATIS] IESU, IV VOTA PROFES [SUS], VIXIT IN EA ANN [OS] XX, IN SINENSI MISSIONE [ANNOS] IV. OBIIT V. MARTII AN [NO] D [OMI] NI MDCCXXIX, AETATIS VERO XXXVI.
Latin—English
To God Most Good and Most Great
Father Paulo de Mesquita, Portuguese, of the Society of Jesus, professed of four vows; he lived in the Society for 20 years, and in the China mission for 4 years, He died on March 5th in the Year of Our Lord 1729, aged 36.