Cyrillus Jarre

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Cyrillus Jarre (born February 2, 1878 in Ahrweiler , Rhineland-Palatinate as Rudolf Jarre ; † March 8, 1952 in Jinan , People's Republic of China ), Franciscan , was Archbishop of Jinan and translator of canonical and legal texts from Chinese into Latin.

Life

Rudolf Jarre was born the fourth of eight children, his father Heinrich was a wealthy Ahrweiler businessman. He attended a German Franciscan grammar school in Harreveld (Geldern), Holland. On August 23, 1897, he joined the Franciscan Order and was given the name Cyrillus . He studied theology in Paderborn .

After being ordained a priest on August 14, 1903 in Paderborn Cathedral , he was sent to China, where he worked in various places in the training of the local clergy. As a medical sergeant, he experienced the siege of Tsingtau and was taken prisoner by Japan. In 1921 and 1922, Cyrillus led the Franciscan relief operations after a severe flood disaster on the Yellow River . For this he received the "Order of the Golden Ear" and the "Chinese Decoration" from the government.

On September 16, 1924, Cyrillus Jarre was called to Rome. From 1924 to 1929 he was there professor of missiology and practical missionary work at the religious college of San Antonio. He took part in the Fifth International Mission Congress in Würzburg from September 24 to 29, 1928. On May 18, 1929, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Jinanfu and Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia . On July 25, 1929 he was ordained bishop in Trier Cathedral. On his trip to China he visited Japan to get to know the missionary work there.

Since 1933 he published the weekly newspaper Kuang Hua Pao ("China-Licht"). In 1934 he translated the civil code of the Chinese Republic into Latin and from 1936 the ecclesiastical code from Latin into Chinese, "an epoch-making work of the Catholic Church in China". During the great flood of 1936 a makeshift hospital was built under Bishop Cyrill. In 1937 he took part in the World Eucharistic Congress in Manila .

On April 11, 1946, as part of the establishment of the hierarchy in China, Cyrillus Jarre was raised to Archbishop of Jinan. He also became the administrator of an Apostolic Prefecture and shortly afterwards came under the sights of the new communist government. He was arrested on July 25, 1951, the 23rd anniversary of his episcopal ordination, and sent to Jinan Prison on October 17, 1951. He died on March 8, 1952 in Jinan St. Joseph's Hospital. He finally found his final resting place after several exhumations in the Lin Chio Chuan cemetery on the outskirts of Jinan.

Honors

The Catholic Church accepted Archbishop Cyrillus Jarre as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

  • Roland Bramkamp: Witness of Jesus in the Middle Kingdom - Archbishop Cyrill Jarre. In: Ludger Thier and Norbert Hartmann: History in Gestalten. Mönchengladbach 1979 (Rhenania Franciscana Supplement 4).
  • Herbert Schneider : He did what he believed. Leutesdorf 1991.
  • Herbert Schneider: Archbishop Cyrillus (Rudolf) Jarre - Shepherd of Tsinan. In: Helmut Moll , (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. 6th, revised and restructured edition Paderborn (inter alia) 2015, Vol. II, pp. 1648–1651.
  • Gaspar Han and Herbert Schneider: (Eds.): Life and path of Archbishop Cyrillus Jarre OFM. Collectanea Franciscana 74, 2004.
  • Dagobert Voss: Gloriosus Christi Athleta - From the wrestling and dying of the Archbishop Cyrillus Jarre OFM. In: Sanctificatio nostra 17, 1952.
  • Paul B. Steffen : Archbishop Cyrillus Rudolf Jarre (1878-1952) from Ahrweiler. Witness of the Faith in Shandong , China, in: 2013 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district, year 70 (2013) 93–95.
  • Paul B. Steffen: JARRE, Cyrillus Rudolf OFM, Bishop (1878-1952). China missionary, church u. Mission lawyer . Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) Vol. 34 (2013) Sp. 603–620, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Han, Life and Way , p. 77

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personal data
SURNAME Jarre, Cyrillus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franciscan Archbishop in Jinan
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrweiler
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1952
Place of death Jinan , People's Republic of China