來自中原的訊息：傅相讓神父的河南傳教經歷

Message from the Central Plains: Father George Foffel's Missionary Experience in Henan

吳蕙芳(Wu, Huey-Fang)

信陽傳教區 ； 新鄉傳教區 ； 天主教聖言會 ； 教會史 ； 文化交流 ； 民間社會 ； Xinyang mission area ； Xinxiang mission area ； Catholic Society of Divine Word ； church history ； cultural exchange ； rural society

淡江史學

33期（2021 / 09 / 01）

21 - 41

繁體中文

傅相讓神父（Fr. George Foffel, 1898～1992）為美籍天主教聖言會（Societas Verbi Divini, 簡稱SVD）會士，出生愛荷華（Iowa）州，1917年入聖言會接受陶成教育，1929年晉鐸後即被派往中國河南南部的信陽傳教區工作，1933年轉至河南北部的新鄉服務，1941年珍珠港事件爆發，因其美籍身份為日軍拘禁，直至1943年乃得返回美國，結束在中國約十四年的傳教生涯。傅相讓神父在華期間曾撰寫書信及專文描述個人工作狀況及所見所聞，本文主要透過這些文字記載及其他一、二手史料，呈現當時在中國的日常生活狀況與傳教工作成果。

Father George Foffel is a member of the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) in the U.S.A.. He was born in Iowa in 1917, enrolled in the Catholic Church and was educated a priest. After his ordination in 1929 he was sent to work in the Xinyang mission area in southern Henan, China. In 1933, he was transferred to Xinxiang mission area in northern Henan to continue his mission work. In 1941, the Pearl Harbor incident took place. Because of his American nationality, he was detained by the Japanese army until 1943. He returned to the United States and this was the end of his 14 year-long missionary career in China. During his stay there, Father George Foffel wrote letters and essays describing personal work conditions and what he saw and heard. This article mainly uses these written records and other primary and secondary historical materials to present the daily life in North China and the results of missionary work at that time.

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