{"id":24636,"date":"2009-05-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/matteo-ricci-4th-centenary-of\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:18:14","slug":"matteo-ricci-4th-centenary-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/matteo-ricci-4th-centenary-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Ricci: 4th centenary of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Matteo-Ricci.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29966 alignright\" alt=\"Matteo Ricci\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Matteo-Ricci-228x300.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Matteo-Ricci-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Matteo-Ricci.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re observing the anniversary of death of the famed Jesuit, Matteo Ricci. Benedict XVI wrote to Bishop Claudio Giuliodori of\u00a0Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy on the occasion of a Jubilee\u00a0Year commemorating the fourth centenary of the death of the Jesuit Father\u00a0Matteo Ricci, who died in Beijing, China on 11 May 1610. In part the Pope said:<\/p>\n<p>In considering his intense academic and spiritual activity,\u00a0we cannot but remain favourably impressed by the innovative and unusual skill\u00a0with which he, with full respect, approached Chinese cultural and spiritual\u00a0traditions. It was, in fact, this approach that characterised his mission,\u00a0which aimed to seek possible harmony between the noble and millennial Chinese\u00a0civilisation and the novelty of Christianity, which is for all societies a\u00a0ferment of liberation and of true renewal from within, because the Gospel,\u00a0universal message of salvation, is destined for all men and women whatever the\u00a0cultural and religious context to which they belong.<\/p>\n<p>A biography of Father Ricci can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/13034a.htm\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More about Father Ricci can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/matrix.scranton.edu\/about\/ab_matteo_ricci.shtml\"><b>here<\/b><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.fairfield.edu\/jmac\/sj\/scientists\/ricci.htm\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those with a deeper curiosity I could recommend Jonathan D. Spence&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Memory-Palace-Matteo-Ricci\/dp\/0140080988\"><b><i>The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re observing the anniversary of death of the famed Jesuit, Matteo Ricci. Benedict XVI wrote to Bishop Claudio Giuliodori of\u00a0Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, Italy on the occasion of a Jubilee\u00a0Year commemorating the fourth centenary of the death of the Jesuit Father\u00a0Matteo Ricci, who died in Beijing, China on 11 May 1610. In part the Pope said: In considering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/matteo-ricci-4th-centenary-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matteo Ricci: 4th centenary of death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,22],"tags":[1720,1749,1838,2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29969,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24636\/revisions\/29969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}