Urban Schamberger

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Urban Schamberger (* circa 1700 in Kanth near Breslau ; † May 20, 1756 ) was a Catholic missionary in China .

Life

Urban Schamberger was born in Kanth around 1700. In 1739 he traveled to China from Rome and preached the gospel in Shensi - Shansi . Due to the religious policy of the Emperor Qianlong , he had to flee to Beijing in 1746 and from there to Macau . He was finally arrested in Jaochow, Kiangsi Province , taken to Nan-Changfu, and sentenced to death there. A short time later, the emperor converted the sentence to life imprisonment. He endured the agony of imprisonment for eight years, until the sentence was converted into "expulsion" through the mediation of the Apostolic Nuncio of Portugal. Urban Schamberger died of exhaustion on May 20, 1756 shortly after his arrival in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône . It was included in Jakob Torsy's Lexicon of German Saints, Blessed, Venerable and Godly.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willeke, Bernward, Preliminary work on the Sinica Franciscana (unpublished), p. 3
    by Collani, Claudia, Die China Mission der Franziskaner, in: Franziskanische Impulse für die interreligösereffen, p. 211
  2. ^ List of deaths of the Franciscan Fathers in China, page 71 under May 20, 1756.
  3. ^ Torsy, Jakob: Lexicon of the German saints, blessed, venerable and godly , Cologne 1959, p. 538.
personal data
SURNAME Schamberger, Urban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic missionary in China
DATE OF BIRTH before 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanth near Breslau
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1756