PAYEN, GEORGE. - Canonist, b. in Nantes on 15 April 1862, d. in Shanghai on 29 June 1940.
Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1880, after several years of teaching in France (1899-1904) he went to China to teach theology (dogmatic and moral) and canon law at the Massimo college and at the Seminary of Zikawei, where for 36 years he was master of the young confreres and of the seminarians in Shanghai. For almost 35 years he also taught medical deontology to the students of the Faculty of Medicine of Aurora University in Shanghai. He was chosen as theologian consultor of the First Plenary Council of China and put in charge of drafting its decrees.
Among his writings the principal ones are: Monita Nankinensia, Zikawei 1918; 2nd ed., 2 vols., 1933; Quaestiones de Baptismo, 3 vols., ibid. 1929-30; De Matrimonio in missionibus ac potissimum in Sinis, ibid. 1928-30; 2nd ed. 1935-36 (which received the highest approvals); Déontologie médicale d'après le droit naturel, ibid. 1922; 2nd ed. 1935.
Bibliographyobituaries, in Il Pensiero missionario, 12 (1940), pp. 372-73 and in Commentarium pro religiosis et missionariis, 22 (1941), p. 43.
BIBL.: obituaries, in Il Pensiero missionario, 12 (1940), pp. 372-73 and in Commentarium pro religiosis et missionariis, 22 (1941), p. 43.
Moreschini, Augusto. “Payen, george.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1011. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/payen-george.
MLA
Moreschini, Augusto. “Payen, george.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1011. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/payen-george.
BibTeX
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author = {Moreschini, Augusto},
title = {Payen, george},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1011},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/payen-george}
}
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