Petitjean, Bernard Thade´e

Japanese: プティジャン - Ｐｅｔｉｔｊｅａｎ，ＢｅｒｎａｒｄＴｈａｄｅ´ｅ

Year of death: October 7, 1884 (Meiji 17)
Born: June 14, 1829
A Catholic missionary from the Paris Foreign Missions Society who came to Japan at the end of the Edo period. Graduated from the Autun Seminary in France. Arrived in Naha in 1860. Landed in Yokohama in 1862, and moved to Nagasaki the following year where he worked hard to build Oura Cathedral. In 1865, he discovered hidden Christians for the first time in 250 years. He opposed the Yokohama Chinese translation due to the issue of church terminology and insisted on preserving the traditions of reverted Christians, publishing a version in Nagasaki that used Christian terminology; these are known as the Petitjean version. He worked hard to rescue Christians who were persecuted in the "Urakami Fourth Persecution." In 1866, he served as the Pope's representative and titular bishop for Japan. A pioneer in the re-evangelization of Catholicism in Japan. He passed away in Nagasaki and was buried in Oura Cathedral. He published the "Collection of Letters from Bishop Petitjean." <References> Genichi Eguchi, "Bishop Petitjean, Father of the Christian Revival"

(Oe Mitsuru)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：明治17.10.7(1884)
生年：1829.6.14
幕末に来日したパリ外国宣教会(カトリック)宣教師。フランス・オータン神学校卒。万延1(1860)年那覇着。文久2(1862)年横浜に上陸,翌年長崎に移り大浦天主堂建築に尽力。慶応1(1865)年,250年ぶりに潜伏キリスト教信徒を発見する。教会用語問題で横浜漢訳版に反対し,復帰信徒の伝統保存を主張,キリシタン用語版を長崎で刊行,これらはプティジャン版と呼ばれている。「浦上四番崩れ」で迫害されている信徒救出に奔走した。慶応2年日本教皇代理,名義司教などを務める。日本カトリック再布教の先駆者。長崎で永眠,大浦天主堂に埋葬された。『プチジャン司教書簡集』がある。<参考文献>江口源一『キリシタン復活の父,プティジャン司教』

(大江満)

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