【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2025 年06月13 日梵蒂岡梵蒂岡城訊】 ─ 2025 年 6 月 5 日星期四，慈幼會傳教士、天主忠僕馬義誠神父(Andrej Majcen) 的《關於生命、德行和聖德名譽的「立場說明書」》(《the volume of the Positio super Vita, Virtutibus et Fama Sanctitatis》)在梵蒂岡封聖部發表。
這份「立場說明書」由加爾默羅山榮福童貞瑪利亞赤足兄弟會的Szczepan Tadeusz Praśkiewicz神父主持，慈幼會的Pierluigi Cameroni神父提名，Lodovica Maria Zanet博士擔任合作人。 該「立場說明書」以清晰深入的方式呈現了有關這位天主忠僕德行生活的全套文獻和證言、證據，其文本網要包括：報告人的簡短介紹「關於德行的資料」，即展示天主忠僕德行生活的屬神部分；兩份各包含證言和文獻證據的匯整文件；傳記；總結及圖片。特別感謝慈幼會Alojzij Snoj神父的熱心以及在教區和羅馬教廷調查階段提供的附合標準且慷慨的合作。
當該「立場說明書」刊行後，將由封聖部神學顧問進行審查。之後，樞機主教和主教們將對其進行研讀：這些明確的研讀和評估階段，將使其在獲得肯定結果後，宣布馬義誠神父為「可敬的天主之僕（Venerable Servant of God）」。之後，若有由他代禱而發生奇蹟的事件，即可開啟列品真福之路。
這一消息在斯洛維尼亞會省和越南引起了極大的回響。斯洛維尼亞是天主忠僕的出生地，當地人民對列品真福一事十分熱心投入。越南是他在中國傳教多年後，再次前往傳教的前沿。
馬義誠神父1904年9月30日出生於斯洛維尼亞馬裡博爾，是家中四個孩子中的長子。他的父親安德烈和母親瑪麗亞·什利克是一對和睦的夫妻，以正直和奉獻精神堪稱典範：父親是一名法院書記，教導他要善待每一個人，不妄加評判，要化解矛盾；母親是一位虔誠的信徒，天主忠僕視她為世上最虔誠的基督徒，並認為自己從未在虔誠度上可與她匹敵，她向他傳遞了對聖母無所不包的愛，以及在這個瞬息萬變的世界中始終侍奉天主的決心。
年輕的馬義誠從國立師範學校畢業後，被聘為拉德納慈幼會學校的教師，這讓他堅定了父母的教誨。在充滿喜樂、奉獻和信仰的環境中，他的日常生活充滿了喜悅。對建議他成為鮑思高慈幼會會士，他以一些時間在聖體前跪下祈禱和反覆思量來回應。
1924年9月8日，他參加了盧布爾雅那拉科夫尼克聖母進教之佑聖殿的隆重祝聖儀式，並於同年10月4日正式進入初學階段。他經歷了慈幼會獻身生活（1925年10月4日宣發初願）和領受鐸職（1933年7月2日晉鐸）的培育階段，期間他接受了無數的任命，並要求承擔有時過於繁重的辛勤工作，這些經歷對他而言是人生的見習期。
在得知類斯‧雷鳴道和加里斯多‧高惠黎在中國殉道（2000禧年，他們被若望·保祿二世封為慈幼會首先殉道聖者）並結識了傳教士紀勵志（Jozef Keréc）神父後，馬義誠也感受到了強烈的傳教使命。在重覆的請求下，傳教之路在 1935 年為他打開，當時國家強制關閉了他擔任校長的拉科夫尼克技術學校。從那時起，他主要在以下地方傳教：從 1935 年到 1951 年在昆明（中國雲南），後被驅逐出境；在北越的河內（1952 年）和南越的西貢（1956 年起）。在這些地方，他深受愛戴並享有聖德的美譽，獲得了他慈幼會生涯中最豐碩的成果。在越南開創了修會的工作，擔任過不同的職務，但最重要的是擔任初學導師。
1976年，他被越南共產政權驅逐出境。在台灣待了一段時間後，他於1979年返回祖國療養。出乎意料的是，他的長上卻要求他留在斯洛維尼亞，當時斯洛維尼亞隸屬於南斯拉夫共產黨。在這裡，他同樣遭遇了政權的迫害，生活在一個飽受迫害的教會和物資匱乏的社區裡。除了最初的幾個月，他一直住在拉科夫尼克，受他摯愛的聖母進教之佑的庇護。
來自斯洛維尼亞的馬義誠神父（Andrej Majcen）領導了一項積極的行動，推動越南的傳教事業，並代表總部長上協調工作的進行。最重要的是，他成為了一位廣受歡迎和愛戴的聽告解神父。他的聖德聲譽不僅在祖國，也在越南，對大家來說，他始終是個令人難忘的父親。
他於95歲生日那天去世。一百多位神父共同主持了葬禮，所有人都將告別的時刻視為逾越節的體驗，也是對天主的感恩。他的遺產還包括3417頁的日記和默想，從中可以看出他的承諾——正如他所說——「追隨聖人的足印」。
Delivery of the ‘Positio super virtutibus’ of the Servant of God Andrej Majcen, Salesian missionary
(ANS – Vatican–Vatican City, 13 June 2025) – On Thursday, 5 June 2025, the volume of the Positio super Vita, Virtutibus et Fama Sanctitatis of the Servant of God Andrej Majcen, Salesian missionary, was delivered at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in the Vatican.
The Positio was presented by Father Szczepan Tadeusz Praśkiewicz, OCD, with Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, SDB, as Postulator, and Dr Lodovica Maria Zanet as Collaborator. The structural elements of the ‘Positio’ – which presents the entire documentary and testimonial evidence concerning the virtuous life of the Servant of God in an articulate and in-depth manner – are: a brief presentation by the Relator; the Informatio super virtutibus, i.e. the theological part in which the virtuous life of the Servant of God is demonstrated; the two Summarium with the testimonial and documentary evidence; the Biographia ex Documentis; the final Sections and the iconographic apparatus. Special thanks go to Fr Alojzij Snoj, SDB, for his passion and the qualified and generous collaboration offered, both in the diocesan and Roman phases of the Cause.
After delivery, the Positio will be examined by the Theological Consultors of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. It will then be studied by the Cardinals and Bishops: these articulated stages of study and evaluation will allow the Supreme Pontiff, in the event of a positive outcome, to declare Father Andrej Majcen a ‘Venerable Servant of God’. A miracle attributed to his intercession will then be needed to open the way to beatification.
This news aroused great joy both in the Slovenian Province, the land where the Servant of God was born and which has accompanied this Cause of Beatification with great commitment and interest, and in that of Vietnam, the frontier of his missionary activity after the years spent in China.
Andrej Majcen was born in Maribor, Slovenia, on 30 September 1904, the eldest of four children. His parents – father Andrej and mother Marija Šlik – were a united couple, exemplary for their integrity and dedication to others: his father, a court clerk, taught Andrej to be good to everyone, not to judge, to reconcile tensions; his mother, a woman of profound faith whom the Servant of God considered a religious in the world and who he believed he had never equalled in devotion, transmitted to him an all-encompassing love for Our Lady and the commitment to always be of God in a changing world.
His father’s and mothers’ teachings found confirmation for the young Andrej when – after the state teacher-training school – he was taken on as a teacher at the Salesians in Radna, in an environment characterised by joy, commitment and a faith that informs daily life. To Don Bosco’s vocational proposal to become a Salesian, he responded with a moment of prayer and struggle on his knees before the Blessed Sacrament.
On 8 September 1924 he took part in the solemn consecration of the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Rakovnik, Ljubljana, before officially entering the novitiate on the following 4 October. He went through the stages of formation to Salesian consecrated life (first profession on 4 October 1925) and to the priesthood (priestly ordination on 2 July 1933), while he was entrusted with numerous obediences and was asked to carry a sometimes excessive burden of hard work, which served as an apprenticeship to life for him.
After learning of the martyrdom in China of Louis Versiglia and Callistus Caravario – later canonised by John Paul II as Salesian protomartyrs in 2000 – and having met the missionary Fr Jozef Keréc, Andrej Majcen also felt a strong missionary vocation. This path, after repeated requests, opened up for him in 1935, when the state imposed the closure of the craft schools in Rakovnik of which he was headmaster. From then on, it was mainly: in Kunming (Yunnan, China) from 1935 until his expulsion in 1951 at the hands of the Communists; in Hanoi in North Vietnam (1952) and in Saigon in South Vietnam (from 1956). Here he, much loved and already accompanied by a reputation for holiness, lived the season of most intense fruits of his Salesian life, founding the Congregation in Vietnam, with different assignments, but above all as Novice Master.
Also expelled from South Vietnam by the communist regime (in 1976), after a period still in the East (Taiwan), he returned to his homeland in 1979 to take care of his health and, against all expectations his Superiors asked him to stay in Slovenia, then under communist Yugoslavia. Here, too, he found a regime, living in a persecuted Church and in communities impoverished of so many goods. Except for the first few months, he always had a home in Rakovnik, under the mantle of his dear Mary Help of Christians.
From Slovenia Fr Andrej Majcen led an intense action of mission promotion and mediation with Vietnam, including on behalf of the Major Superiors. Above all, he became a sought-after and beloved confessor. His reputation for holiness accompanied him in his homeland as well as in Vietnam, for whom he remains an unforgettable father.
He died on his 95th birthday. More than one hundred priests concelebrated at the funeral and all experienced the moment of farewell as a Paschal experience and one of gratitude to God. His legacy is also 3417 pages of Diaries and Meditations from which transpires the commitment – so he said – to ‘walk in the footsteps of the saints’.