Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau
Protestant burial ground with graves of missionaries, merchants, and artists from the colonial era.
This guide to the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau follows Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary sent to China, who arrived in eighteen oh-seven at twenty-five and spent decades translating the Bible and compiling a landmark Chinese-English dictionary. It traces how his wife Mary's death from cholera in eighteen twenty-one forced the British East India Company to confront a standoff between Portuguese and Chinese burial rules, and to buy this plot. Among the cemetery's one hundred and sixty-two graves of traders, sailors and missionaries, his is the one visitors are drawn to first. Listen for the dates carved beside his name.
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