The Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes landed at Hội An with four other priests and began learning Vietnamese from Francisco de Pina, who was already writing it in Latin letters.
Religion
Alexandre de Rhodes arrives in Hội An
- December 1624
- Southeast Asia
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