What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
What is a saint? In our understanding, a saint is a person of high moral standing, of great wisdom, of reaching the pinnacle of a certain field, or of a high standard of universal values, of moral immaculate, and admired by all. For example, Confucius, Mencius, and Jesus, they are all saints who are in line with the public perception. But if a person violates the rules, commits adultery, oppresses the people, and finally deserves to be caught and sentenced to death, such a completely bad person, a person who is extremely disgusting, will you still think that he is a saint? Obviously not, but the most absurd thing is that such a person should be canonized as a "saint" and used it as one of the reasons for open war.
This man was named Marais, a French Catholic missionary, but what he did did not comfort the God he believed in. Marais, formerly known as Auguste Chappleina, also known as Maosdo, belonged to the Paris Foreign Missionary Society. Marais was born in La Rochelle, France. A small village in Normandy. He was the youngest child in the family and when he was young, he mainly helped the family with farm work. Later, he was inspired to persuade his parents to enter the monastery to study.
Although he had long since passed the age limit and surrounded him with many younger classmates than him, he became the best of them with great enthusiasm and firm conviction, and was selected for missionary work.
On June 10, 1843, the twenty-third year of Daoguang," he was promoted to priest and became one of the backbone of the Church. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), he was sent by the Paris Foreign Missionary Society to bid farewell to his family and leave France to go on a missionary trip to Guangxi, China. As early as the 24th year of Daoguang (1844), the "Whampoa Treaty" signed by the Qing government clearly stipulated that the French could build churches, houses, cemeteries and other buildings at the treaty port, and could preach at five treaty ports such as Shanghai and Guangzhou. So it is not unusual for French missionaries to come to China.
However, the Whampoa Treaty also clearly stipulates that missionaries are not allowed to enter the interior without permission, and "whoever france violates this prohibition, crosses the border, or enters the mainland as far as possible, is subject to the investigation of Chinese officials." But Ma Lai did not care and did not comply with the regulations at all. In his first year in China, he infiltrated Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, and in the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), he infiltrated Xilin County, a remote area in western Guangxi, to carry out illegal missionary activities, and it was here that the famous Xilin Teaching Case occurred.
After coming here, he quickly colluded with corrupt officials and bandits, and he often interacted with gangs that called "Green Forest" were actually bandits, and he wanted to use the bandits' power to expand his power, and the bandits also relied on his protection to escape punishment. At that time, a group of bandits killed people by mistake when they stopped the road and robbed, and the murderer was caught and beheaded, and the bandits found Ma Lai and sold his life on the condition of saving people. Sure enough, after Some Manipulation by Marai, the murderer was acquitted.
In addition, he also destroyed local customs through preaching. China has its own traditions and customs, and the local rules have its own rules, but Ma Lai regards them as heretics and uses his power to sabotage them.
China has always been an ancestor worshipper and has a habit of worshipping ancestors, but Ma Lai asked his followers to destroy the tablets in their homes and not allow them to go to graves. Bai San, one of the believers, did so, and the elders in the family accused him one after another, and he also woke up and wanted to quit the religion, but Ma Lai not only did not allow it, but also increased the persecution of him.
In addition, Malai also raped women, and originally the local young people were free to marry, but he stipulated that believers and their children must marry believers, and if the other party is not a believer, they must join the religion to get married. Moreover, when the believers were going to mass before marriage, he often took this opportunity to rape the bride and dig the absurd "first night right" of the European Middle Ages out of the ground again.
In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), the people finally could no longer stand the oppression of this foreign lord, so they took the opportunity of the change of Zhi County and the new official to take the opportunity of three fires to sue Ma Lai and his gang to the official palace. 、
Zhang Mingfeng, the new Zhixian County, immediately made a decision after learning about Ma Lai's various crimes, arrested a total of twenty-six lawbreakers including him, and finally sentenced him to death in a fair law enforcement, and Ma Lai was not simply beheaded, but stood in a cage and died! To play a deterrent to kill chickens and scare monkeys!
At that time, the Western powers were eager to move, and when the news of Malai's execution came out, they immediately made a big fuss about it, and France used the Schilling case as an excuse to provoke war under the banner of protecting the Holy Church, in this name to carry out overseas colonial expansion and gain the support of the Catholic faction at home. At the same time, the British government also created an excuse for the "Yarrow Incident" and launched the Second Opium War for treachery.
Ma Lai's death is still in the past, but the absurdity is that in the hundred years since the incident, he has been declared a true blessing. Even on the first of October in the millennium, Pope John Paul II was canonized as a martyr saint for dying in his mission. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Malai was not a good person at all, and the name of this "saint" was not only not respectable, but on the contrary, it was a joke.
Western countries want to use this to cover up ugly things, whitewash their crimes, and forcibly use evildoers to brighten up, but they do not know that such deliberateness makes people feel even more absurd. If there really was a God, wouldn't it be angry to see his own believers do such things?