Christian Missionaries in Mongolia: Andre de Longjumeau, James Gilmour, Evariste Regis Huc, Frans August Larson, Giovanni Da Pian del Carpine baixar o livro de graça

Chapters: Andre de Longjumeau, James Gilmour, Evariste Regis Huc, Frans August Larson, Giovanni Da Pian Del Carpine, William of Rubruck. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Andrew of Longjumeau (Original French name: Andre de Longjumeau) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century. He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the second bore gifts and letters from Louis IX of France to Guyuk Khan. Well acquainted with the Middle-East, he spoke Arabic and "Chaldean" (thought to be either Syriac or Persian). Andrew went to Constantinople to obtain the Crown of Thorns bought by Louis IX to Baldwin II. It is preserved today in a 19th century reliquary, in Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin king of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire. Andrew was accompanied on this mission by brother Jacques. Andrew of Longjumeau led one of four missions dispatched to the Mongols by Pope Innocent IV. He left Lyon in the spring of 1245 for the Levant. He visited Muslim principalities in Syria and representatives of the Nestorian and Jacobite churches in Persia, finally delivering the papal correspondence to a Mongol general near Tabriz. In Tabriz, Andre de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East. At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of Fra...http: //booksllc.net/?id=920731