Annet Genestier

Annet Genestier
Born(1856-04-16)16 April 1856
Chambon-sur-Dolore, France
Died9 January 1937(1937-01-09) (aged 80)
Burial placeSacred Heart Church, Zhongding
OccupationCatholic missionary of the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris

Annet Genestier (16 April 1856 – 9 January 1937, Chinese: 任安守; pinyin: Rén Ān shǒu) was a French Catholic priest of the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris and a botanist.

Biography

Genestier was born in Chambon-sur-Dolore. He was ordained a priest on 5 July 1885 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont. On 7 October 1885, he departed for his mission.[1]

Genestier came to Kangding in 1885.[2] He arrived in Gongshan, Yunnan, in 1888.[3] In 1896 he moved to Baihanluo, Yunnan.[4] There he founded the Bahang Catholic Church [fr] in 1898.[2] He also established a missionary post there in June 1899.[5]

Genestier organized the construction of Sacred Heart Church at Zhongding.

In 1905, conflicts against Christianity broke out in Deqing, Yanjing [zh], Zhongdian and Batang. In the same year, Genestier also wanted to build a church at Zhongding, Bingzhongluo, but he was opposed by the lamas at Puhua Temple (普化寺) and the locals.[6] After another religious riot broke out in 1905 in Baihanluo and destroyed the church, Genestier went into exile until the Qing government granted him the fourth-rank of the official hat button (四品頂戴) in 1907. Using the compensation from the Qing government, he then rebuilt the Catholic Church in Baihanluo in 1908.[2] In the same year, he also initiated the construction of the Sacred Heart Church, Zhongding.[4]

Genestier was a "missionary-botanist" according to Jane Kilpatrick in her Fathers of Botany: The discovery of Chinese plants by European missionaries. She indicated that Genestier was the travel companion of André Soulié in the Tibetan borderlands.[7] The botanist George Forrest mentioned Genestier in his "Journey on Upper Salwin, October-December, 1905" report.[8] According to Beolens et al., Genestier received Francis Kingdon-Ward in 1913.[9]

By 1924, Genestier had built five churches and formed a congregation of 978 locals.[3] On 25 June 1925, Genestier officiated the 25th anniversary of the founding of the first missionary post on the Nujiang River.[5]

Genestier died in 1937 and was buried at the Catholic Church in Zhongding.[10] His tomb was destroyed along with the church complex during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt later.[11]

Legacy

A subspecies of the Rusty-capped fulvetta, Alcippe dubia genestieri, was named after Genestier. It is synonymous with Schoeniparus dubius genestieri.[9]

Genestier also published the following writings:[1]

  • "Thibet : voyage au Loutse-Kiang". Les Missions catholiques (in French). Lyon. 1899. pp. 157–59.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "Thibet : expédition en pays inconnu". Annales de la Société des Missions étrangères (in French). 1904. pp. 268–76.
  • "La mission loutsé". Annales de la Société des Missions étrangères (in French). 1929. pp. 20–30.

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Annet GENESTIER" (in French). The France - Asia Research Institute. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Liu, Dingyin (10 December 2022). 贡山白汉洛教堂 [Gongshan Baihanluo Church]. Encyclopedia of China. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b Diao, Ying (2015). Gospel Singing in the Valley: An Investigation into the Hymnody and Choral Singing of the Lisu on the China-Burma/Myanmar Border (PhD). University of Maryland, College Park. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b 吴, 艳 (October 2012). 滇西北民族聚居地建筑地区性与民族性的关联研究 [Associated Research of Regionality and Ethnicity in Minority Settlements of Northwest Yunnan] (PhD) (in Chinese). Tsinghua University. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Georges ANDRÉ" (in French). The France - Asia Research Institute. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  6. ^ 高, 志英. 贡山县丙中洛地区多种宗教从冲突到并存、交融发展历史研究 [Conflict, coexist and fusion——history study on the religion development of Binzhongluo district, Gongshan county] (PDF). Journal of Yunnan Normal University (in Chinese). 33 (1): 48–52. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  7. ^ Kilpatrick 2014, p. VIII.
  8. ^ Forrest, George (1908). "Journey on Upper Salwin, October-December, 1905". The Geographical Journal. 32 (3): 239–66. doi:10.2307/1777729. JSTOR 1777729. Retrieved 12 May 2023. Pere Genestier of Tsekou gives it as 4900 feet
  9. ^ a b Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2014, p. 211.
  10. ^ Le Peut, Bruno (December 2020). "Christmas at Bingzhongluo" (PDF). Postal Himal. 2020 (184): 4.
  11. ^ Chen, Haozhou (2 June 2021). 三江并流区天主教堂本土化特征与共性研究 [Study on Inculturation Characteristics and Commonality of Catholic Church in Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas] (MA). 昆明理工大学. doi:10.27200/d.cnki.gkmlu.2021.001763. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

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