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He was born in La Rochelle, France. He left France in 1852 to join the Christian mission in the Guangxi province of China. After a stay in Guangzhou, he moved to Guiyang, capital of the Guizhou province, in the spring of 1854. In December, he went, together with Lu Tingmei, to Yaoshan village, Xilin county of Guangxi, where he met the local Christian community of around 300 people. He celebrated his first Mass (liturgy)|mass there on December 8, 1854. He was arrested and thrown into the Xilin county prison ten days after his arrival, and was released after sixteen or eighteen days of captivity. Following personal threats, he went back to Guizhou in early 1855, and came back to Guangxi in December of the same year. He was denounced on February 22, 1856, by Bai San, a relative of a newly convert, while the local tribunal was on holiday. He was arrested in Yaoshan, together with other Chinese Christians, by orders of Zhang Mingfeng, the new local mandarin on February 25, 1856. He was severely beaten and locked into a small iron cage, which was hung at the gate of the jail. He was already dead when he was beheaded. Under French diplomatic pressure, the mandarin was later demoted. This act, the "Father Chapdelaine Incident", was used as the pretext for the French involvement, following United Kingdom|Britain, in the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The article 13 of the Treaty of Tientsin, signed at the end of the war, gave Christians the right to spread their faith and hold property, thus opening up another means of western penetration August Chapdelaine was Beatification|beatified in 1900. He was Canonization|canonized on October 1, 2000, by Pope John Paul II, together with 120 Christians martyrs who had died in China between the 17th and 20th century. On October 3, 2000, Xinhua News Agency reacted to the canonozation by issuing a press release, painting a very negative portrait of Father Chapdelaine.
Category:1814 births|Chapdelaine, Auguste Category:1856 deaths|Chapdelaine, Auguste Category:Christian martyrs|Chapdelaine, Auguste This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Auguste Chapdelaine".
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