Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)
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The Old Protestant Cemetery is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China. It was established by the British East India Company in 1821 in Portuguese Macau in response to a lack of burial sites for Protestants in the Roman Catholic Portuguese colony.
Sign above the entrance to the Protestant Cemetery in Macau.
A view of the cemetery.
A view from the entrance
Morrison Chapel
Robert Morrison (missionary)
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Robert Morrison, FRS, was an Anglo-Scottish Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
Portrait of Morrison by John Wildman
Morrison's birthplace in Bullers Green near Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Painting of the Thirteen Factories, c. 1805
Li Shigong (far left) and Chen Laoyi translating the Bible as Morrison looks on, an engraving after George Chinnery's now-lost c. 1828 original.