單國壐樞機
1923年12月2日，單國璽樞機生於河北省濮陽縣。1946年9月11日他在北平入耶穌會初學院。
單樞機在北平完成兩年初學後，到上海文學院才3個月，就因戰爭被迫逃至澳門，1949年中華耶穌會遷往菲律賓，單樞機就讀哲學。單樞機畢業後，於1951年至1952年間，在菲律賓南部耶穌會的沙威大學當實習老師教授宗教課程；也在華僑商會辦的光華中學，兼課教授物理化學。
1952年6月單樞機在菲律賓中華碧瑤神學院就讀神學，1955年3月18日在菲律賓碧瑤晉鐸成為神父。晉鐸時，單國璽樞機選了一句座右銘：「同甘共苦努力工作，應如基督耶穌的精兵！」（弟後2:3）。
1963年8月單國璽樞機從越南被調到台灣服務，任耶穌會彰化靜山文學院、初學院、避靜院院長及初學導師。也是在此時開始了與「基督服務團」的淵源。為讓初學生們在修道生活中有更務實的生活經驗，單樞機安排初學生做1個月的勞工，以體驗基層人民的生活，並去醫院照顧病人以及到安老院照顧老人等。
1970年5月開始，單樞機出任台北蘆洲天主教徐匯中學校長。在任校長六年期間，單樞機致力教育，務求每位學生都能接受「全人教育」。
徐匯中校長任期屆滿後，單樞機調任天主教傳播工作機構「光啟社」社長。擔任光啟社社長讓單樞機更了解電視傳播媒體對社會傳教事業的影響，並因此決定擴大光啟社的規模。
1979年11月，單國壐被教宗任命為花蓮主教。他在1980年2月14日的晉牧典禮中說：「我有一個願景，要在花蓮教區內建立一個信、望、愛信仰活潑的基督徒團體；我是耶穌會士，不求個人的名利地位；只求基督萬世名和基督徒的萬世利。」他選擇了「在基督內重建一切」作為牧職的座右銘，並將它放在他的牧徽中，時時勉勵自己。
1991年3月4日，單國壐被任命為高雄教區主教，並於同年6月17日就職。
教宗若望保祿二世於1998年1月18日宣布擢升單國璽主教為樞機，是第六位華人領受樞機榮銜者。
2007年，單國璽樞機罹患肺腺癌。透過不斷祈禱，單樞機面對疾病的角度從「為什麼是我」轉換成「為什麼不該是我」，罹癌的困境成為他生命最後的「禮物」與「天使」。
他未向天主祈求奇蹟使癌症痊癒，他祈求能在生命餘年繼續奉獻，成就天主大愛。最後他帶著「天使」（癌症）藉由220場的「生命告別之旅」講座走遍全台，與社會大眾分享他化癌為愛，用愛告別，用愛見證生死，讓眾人看到「活出愛」的真正意義。
2012年8月22日，單國璽樞機因器官衰竭，安逝於台北新店耕莘醫院，享年九十歲。
單國璽樞機安葬於高雄市小港的天主教高松墓園，他的墓誌銘是他遺囑交代的十六個字：「生於基督，活於基督，死於基督，永屬基督。」
Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, SJ
Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, SJ, Bishop emeritus of Kaohsiung (Taiwan), was born on 3 December 1923 at Puyang, Hopeh, in China. He entered the Society of Jesus on 11 September 1946 in Beijing. He studied philosophy in the Regional Seminary of St. Joseph in Chiughsien (1944-46) and in the Jesuits’ philosophical institute in Manila (1941-51). He completed his theological studies at Bellarmine College in Baguio in the Philippines (1952-56). He was ordained a priest on 18 March 1955 in Baguio and completed the final stage of his formation in 1956-1957 in Araneta Farm, Novaliches, in the Philippines.
He was appointed Director of the Chinese Section of Sacred Heart School in Cebu City in the Philippines and worked there from 1957-1959.
From 1959-1961 he undertook studies for a doctorate in spiritual theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He was appointed Minister of the house and Socius of the Master of Novices at the Jesuit Novitiate in Thuduc in Vietnam and he held this position from 1961-63.
He took the four solemn vows on 2 February 1963 at Thuduc, and was appointed Master of Novices and Rector of Manresa House in Changhua, Taiwan, where he worked from 1963-70. Then he was appointed Rector of St. Ignatius High School, Taipei (1970-76).
On 15 November 1979 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Hualien. On 14 February 1980 he was ordained to the episcopate and took possession of the Diocese of Hualien.
On 4 March 1991 he was transferred to the Diocese of Kaohsiung and was installed there on 17 June 1991.
In his service of the Church, he has focused his energies on the formation in Taiwan of a well prepared laity.
He is also involved in charitable works: in his Diocese he has set up the Catholic Charitable Foundation for Social Welfare, and at the national level he has promoted the creation of a Catholic Mission Foundation in Taiwan to meet the needs of Taiwanese society and to evangelize it.
He was appointed Cardinal-Priest of the Titulus S. Chrysogoni by Pope John Paul II in 1998.
He retired in January 2006 and died on August 22, 2012, after a battle with a pneumonia infection, having also battled lung cancer since his diagnosis in August 2006.
資料來源 References
圖：https://shan.org.tw/about/9
中文內容：https://archives.catholic.org.hk/In%20Memoriam/Chinese%20Cardinals/P-Shan.htm
https://shan.org.tw/about/9
English text:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_shan-kuo-hsi_p.html