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About Father Hendricks
- Father Hendricks (March 17, 1846 in Venlo – June 22, 1906 in Kashgar) was a Dutch Roman Catholic missionary.Accompanied by a Polish nobleman called Adam Ignatovich whom he had met in Omsk on his way to Chinese Turkestan, Hendricks arrived in Kashgar in 1885 and remained there until his death.
- During his stay in Kashgar, Hendricks clashed with Nikolai Petrovsky, the Russian consul-general, and lived for a time with George Macartney at Chini-Bagh.Hendricks frequently had to travel to British India, 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 Hunza on the border with Xinjiang.
- 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 escort.
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