Matteo Ricci 利玛窦

 

Italy
20 April 2022

Matteo Ricci SJ (6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.   Ricci arrived at the Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1582 where he began his missionary work in China.   He mastered the Chinese language and writing system. He became the first European to enter the Forbidden City of Beijing in 1601 when invited by the Wanli Emperor, who sought his services in matters such as court astronomy and calendrical science. He emphasized parallels between Catholicism and Confucianism but opposed Buddhism. He converted several prominent Chinese officials to Catholicism.   Ricci created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters.   Ricci also worked with several Chinese elites, such as Xu Guangqi, in translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time in history.

马泰奥·里奇（1552年10月6日—1610年5月11日），漢名利玛窦，号西泰，又号清泰、西江，天主教耶稣會意大利籍神父、传教士、学者。利玛窦在明朝颇受士大夫的敬重，尊称为“泰西儒士”，是天主教在華传教的开拓者之一。   万历十年（1521年）利玛窦前往中国传教，8月7日到达澳門。   万历十一年（1583年）利玛窦获准與羅明堅神父入居广东肇庆。   萬曆十二年（1584年），利瑪竇與明朝光祿寺少卿李之藻合作刊刻的世界地圖《坤輿萬國全圖》。   利玛窦还翻译了《十誡》、《天主經》、《圣母赞歌》，《教理问答书》。译拉丁文《四书》，与瞿汝夔一起翻译了欧几里得《几何原本》     他除传播天主教教义外，还广交中国官员和社会名流，传播西方天文、数学、地理等科学技术知识。他的著述不仅对中西交流作出了重要贡献，对日本和朝鲜半岛上的国家认识西方文明也产生了重要影响。

Vatican City

22 June 2010

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

20 April 2010 

Macau

30 November 2006

Taiwan
3 April 1983

UN 2021 Mother Teresa

 

On 12 August 2021, the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) issued a $1.80 definitive stamp to honour Mother Teresa.

The quote on the stamp reads “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

Mother Teresa, the renowned nun and missionary, was born in North Macedonia in 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent.

At age 12, she strongly felt the calling to become a missionary. At the age of 18, she went to India, where she devoted herself to helping the destitute.

In 1948, she became an Indian citizen and founded the order of Missionaries of Charity in Kolkota (Calcutta) two years later, which became noted for its work among the poor and the ill in that city.
For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion, first in India and then in other countries, including hospices and homes for those without.

Mother Teresa’s work has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. She received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace”.

Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997, at the age of 87. The United Nations designates 5 September annually as the International Day of Charity.

The stamps were illustrated by Martin Mörck (Norway).

Macau 2007 马礼逊来华二百周年

马礼逊（Robert Morrison，1782年1月5日—1834年8月1日），英格蘭出生的蘇格蘭传教士。清嘉庆十二年（1807）受倫敦傳道會派遣来华传教，到达广州，是外国来华的第一个基督新教传教士，在英国东印度公司任职25年。

他在广州做了大量文化工作，包括了第一个把《圣经》全文翻译成中文并予以出版；独自编撰了中国第一部《华英字典》，编写了《中国一览》、《广东省土语字汇》（1828年）等近代早期中西文化交流方面的重要作品。

他為第一个华人基督新教教徒蔡高施洗，按立了第一名华人牧师梁发。他和米怜等在马六甲创办了英华书院、中文月刊《察世俗每月统计传》与英文刊物《印度支那拾锦》，在澳門出版中文報刊《雜聞篇》。

英华书院是近代传教士开办的第一所中文学校，马礼逊曾任该院牧师。曾协助詹姆士·馬地臣办了在中国出版的第一份英文报——《广州记录报》。1834年過世，葬於澳門舊基督教墳場。

Macau 2006 耶稣会

2006年，澳门邮政发行了以“耶稣会”为主题的邮票，是对耶稣会在澳门历史与文化影响的重要集邮致敬。

这套邮票由马若龙（Victor Hugo Marreiros）设计，由荷兰 Joh. Enschedé 印刷公司印制，于2006年11月30日发行。

整套包含4枚邮票和1张小型张，描绘了与澳门发展有关的重要耶稣会人物：
利玛窦（Matteo Ricci）： 著名传教士与学者，在中欧文化交流中发挥了关键作用。
圣方济·沙勿略（St. Francis Xavier）： 耶稣会的创始成员之一，在亚洲传播基督教方面具有重要地位。
范礼安（Alessandro Valignano）： 耶稣会传教计划的重要推动者，对亚洲传教事业影响深远。
高母羡（D. Melchior Carneiro）： 活跃于本地区的耶稣会传教士。
小型张纪念的是耶稣会创会人圣依纳爵·罗耀拉（St. Ignatius of Loyola）逝世450周年。

Albania-Italy Joint Issue 1998 Madre Teresa

 

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. 

Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, at the age of 18 she moved to Ireland and later to India, where she lived most of her life. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is her feast day.

Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation, which grew to have over 4,500 nuns across 133 countries as of 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and also profess a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."

Mother Teresa received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work, but was criticised for her views on abortion and contraception, as well as the poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorised biography, written by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992, and she has been the subject of many other works. On 6 September 2017, Mother Teresa and Saint Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta.

Monumento a Santa Teresa di Calcutta