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2023 (11)

 * ... that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Suzhou is known for its "hybridity" of Chinese and Western architecture?
 * ... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope?
 * ... that an abandoned seminary (pictured) collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, upon its 100th year of completion?
 * ... that after a riot destroyed some local churches, Marie-Julien Dunand, a French missionary in China, ordered the construction of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Chengdu and Annunciation Seminary in Pengzhou?
 * ... that German president Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, visited St. Francis Cathedral in Xi'an, China, 300 years after construction began?
 * ... that Luo Wenzao (pictured) became the first Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
 * ... that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier, a French missionary-botanist in China who also built Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
 * ... that during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Boxer rebels destroyed the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Taiyuan, and 26 members of the clergy were killed?
 * ... that Emmanuel Zheng Manuo was the first Chinese student in Europe and the first Chinese Jesuit priest?
 * ... that Wu Xiaoyan, persecuted because of her adoptive father Wu Han, committed suicide 13 days before the end of the Cultural Revolution?
 * ... that Chen Xiaocui (pictured) helped to translate Sherlock Holmes into Chinese when she was still a child?

2024 (11)

 * ... that the Cross Temple in Fangshan, Beijing, is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in China?
 * ... that Shen Zigao, the first Anglican bishop of Chinese descent, was consecrated at All Saints Church, Shanghai, in 1934?
 * ... that Louis Zhang Jiashu, a Catholic bishop of Shanghai who studied at Canterbury in 1911, received the archbishop of Canterbury in Shanghai in 1983?
 * ... that Tarcisio Martina, the representative of the Holy See in China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1951 over a plot to assassinate Mao Zedong?
 * ... that communist forces set up their headquarters at the Sacred Heart Cathedral (pictured) during the 1948 battle for Kaifeng in the Chinese Civil War?
 * ... that although the Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the Qing's ban on Christianity and enter China?
 * ... that Chinese-born Joseph Pierce (pictured) enlisted as a Union Army soldier, fought at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and was made a corporal?
 * ... that the charm quark made physicists eat hats?
 * ... that in 1940 Xu Ruiyun became the first Chinese woman to receive a PhD in mathematics?
 * ... that an abandoned Catholic church in China was used by a party school?
 * ... that the Chinese Red Army housed its political directorate in a Catholic church in 1935?