MARTILLAT, JOACHIM ENJOBERT de. — Born in 1706 at Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) from an old noble family, he entered in 1727 the Seminary of the Foreign Missions in Paris. In the same year he left for the Far East and in 1731 was ordained priest at Juthia (Siam).
In 1732 he settled in Szechwan but was twice expelled from there by the Vicar Apostolic, Msgr. Mullener, a Lazarist. In 1737, however, he obtained from Rome permission for the Paris Seminary to send its missionaries to evangelize the area. On 2 October 1739 he was appointed titular Bishop of Ecriena and Vicar Apostolic of Yunnan. Msgr. Mullener consecrated him. In 1744 he was also appointed Superior of Szechwan, Hou-Kouang, and Kweichow, and established the regulations, still in force, for the Chinese virgins and catechists. The persecution of 1745–46 and illness forced him in September 1746 to take refuge in Macao, from where he departed for France on 6 January 1748. In 1753 he was appointed Assistant at the Pontifical Throne. On 24 August 1755 he died in Rome, where for two years he had held the office of procurator of his Paris Seminary of the Foreign Missions, and was buried in the church of the Trinità dei Monti.
(from E. Martinc - U. Durand, *Thesaurus novus anecdotorum*, I, Paris III, p. 1, after the addresses of Martène, Edmond — Incipit of the *Altercatio inter Theopóllum et Simonem*, with an engraving reproducing the two authors introducing a group of prelates into a library.
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