| Abstrakt: |
From major part of Latin manuscripts of the travelogue of Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan friar and pilgrim to the court of the Great Khan in the beginning of the fourteenth century, we can learn that he, together with some other Franciscans, met the Great Khan on his way to his Summer Palace in Shangdu. Odoric was one of the Franciscan missionaries in the Yuan Dynasty in the beginning of the 14th century. In his Relatio, he mentions the conversions to the faith of Christ, even among the dignitaries of the Yuan court, and thus witnesses the missionary activities of the Franciscan friars or of himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
