Father Hendricks (March 17, 1846 in
Venlo
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– June 22, 1906 in
Kashgar
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
) was a Dutch
Roman Catholic
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missionary
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.
Accompanied by a Polish
nobleman
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called Adam Ignatovich whom he had met in
Omsk
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on his way to
Chinese Turkestan
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,
[John Avetaranian, Richard Schafer and John Bechard, "A Muslim who became a Christian", 2003, page 83] Hendricks arrived in
Kashgar
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan ...
in 1885 and remained there until his death. During his stay in Kashgar, Hendricks clashed with
Nikolai Petrovsky
Nikolay Fyodorovich Petrovsky (russian: Николай Фёдорович Петровский; 1837–1908) was the Russian consul-general in Kashgar from 1882 until 1902.
Petrovsky's main adversary during his time in Central Asia was George Ma ...
, the Russian consul-general, and lived for a time with
George Macartney at
Chini-Bagh.
[Ruins of Desert Cathay – Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China]
, Volume 1, M A Stein, 1907, p. 124
Hendricks frequently had to travel to
British India
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, and despite good relations with Macartney, he occasionally had troubles crossing the border. British agent
Ralph Cobbold reported that in the late 1890s Hendriks was detained by the British for several weeks at
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** Hunza Peak, a mou ...
on the border with
Xinjiang
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.
[ Ralph P. Cobbold]
Innermost Asia – Travels and Sport in the Pamirs
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. pp. 232–34 Hendricks ran his church out of a mud hut and was apparently able to only convert one person, a Chinese cobbler, during his time in Kashgar.
Father Hendricks died of throat cancer and was carried to his grave by a
Cossack
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escort.
References
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1846 births
1907 deaths
Christian missionaries in Central Asia