You See, In The Year Just Named, The Great Kaan Sent A Baron Of
His Whose Name Was MAR SARGHIS, A Nestorian Christian, To Be Governor Of
This City For Three Years.
And during the three years that he abode there
he caused these two Christian churches to be built, and since then there
they are.
But before his time there was no church, neither were there any
Christians.[NOTE 1]
NOTE 1. - CHIN-KIANG FU retains its name unchanged. It is one which became
well known in the war of 1842. On its capture on the 21st July in that
year, the heroic Manchu commandant seated himself among his records and
then set fire to the building, making it his funeral pyre. The city was
totally destroyed in the T'ai-P'ing wars, but is rapidly recovering its
position as a place of native commerce.
[Chen-kiang, "a name which may be translated 'River Guard,' stands at the
point where the Grand Canal is brought to a junction with the waters of
the Yang-tzu when the channel of the river proper begins to expand into an
extensive tidal estuary." (Treaty Ports of China, p. 421.) It was
declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tien-Tsin 1858. - H.C.]
Mar Sarghis (or Dominus Sergius) appears to have been a common name
among Armenian and other Oriental Christians. As Pauthier mentions, this
very name is one of the names of Nestorian priests inscribed in Syriac on
the celebrated monument of Si-ngan fu.
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