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Wu Li

Wu Li, SJ (); ca. 1632-1718 was a Chinese landscape painter, Christian poet, calligrapher and Jesuit missionary priest from Jiangsu who lived during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).

Wu converted to the Catholic Church in China, and, after being widowed, joined the Society of Jesus. In 1688, after seven years of education at St. Paul's College, Macau, Wu was ordained at Nanjing as one of the three first Chinese Jesuit priests, taking the name ''Simon-Xavier a Cunha''. He spent the remaining 30 years of his life serving tirelessly as priest in rural villages. Provided by Wikipedia