The Wise Man From the West: Fr. Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China Prayer/Spirituality -Volume VI: Passiontide & Holy

-Volume VI: Passiontide & Holy Week

rounded off by two very contradistinctive

follows the month dedicated to His Immaculate Mother

striving to eradicate the Albigensians

This volume perfectly matches the original four volume set and this is the first and only complete translation from Latin into English of these three Epistles of Saint Paul

The Wise Man From the West: Fr. Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China Prayer/Spirituality -Volume VI: Passiontide & HolyThis is the amazing story of the famous Jesuit missionary priest to China, Fr. Matteo Ricci, revered as a "Wise Man" by the Chinese. He arrived in China in 1582 and died there twenty eight years later, having developing a deep knowledge of and love for the country, the culture and the people. Before Ricci's heroic mission, China was an unexplored land bordering on the vague, mysterious Cathay, and the West was no more than a rumor to the learned