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Diego de Pantoja, Jesuit at the Ming court

Valdemoro, Comarca Sur, Madrid

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Diego de Pantoja, Jesuit at the Ming court

Curiosity · Valdemoro, Comarca Sur, Madrid

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Baptised in the town in 1571, he entered the Society of Jesus in Toledo and accompanied Matteo Ricci to Beijing, where the two arrived on 24 January 1601; he wrote several works in Chinese and died in exile in Macao in 1618.

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