[1] Daqin announced his resignation from the Chinese government mandated Catholic Patriotic Association at his episcopal ordination Mass, and was taken into custody as a result.

[1] In Shanghai's St. Ignatius Cathedral, in front of a congregation which included Communist Party officials, Ma used his ordination speech to announce his resignation from the Catholic Patriotic Association.

[8] According to Reuters, Ma soon disappeared from public view, "instructed by the late bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian to move to a mountainside seminary outside Shanghai, where he has been confined...

"[7] In December 2013, the BBC reported that Bishop Ma had not seen in public for almost 18 months and that during his confinement at Sheshan Seminary, he was being given "political lessons – communist indoctrination by any other name – three times a week".

[9] That month Reuters reported that Ma remained at the Sheshan Seminary, regularly posting blog items for the faithful: "mostly excerpts from scripture and greetings to his flock."