Picture No | 10007703 |
Date | 635 |
Description | Stone confirming early Christian missionaries in China |
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Stone found at Si-gan-fou (Chang-an, or Hsian-Fu) in 1625, which seemed to confirm that Christian missionaries had been in China in 635, during the Tang Dynasty, when O-lo-pen (Olopun, Alopen), an Assyrian man, preached there.
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Source | Henrion, Missions catholiques 1.79 plate xvii |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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