Empress Dowager Wang (Southern Ming)

"[3]She, along with the Emperor's biological mother and his consort, was converted to Catholicism by the Jesuit Andreas Xavier Koffler in April 1648.

As Empress Dowager Wang and several others had converted to Christianity, she wrote to Pope Innocent X, requesting aid.

She gave the letters to Jesuit missionary Michał Piotr Boym, who, accompanied by two Chinese, set sail from Macao by the end of the year.

They arrived in Rome in November 1652 via Goa, Golconda, Ispahan, Tauris, Smyrna, Venice, and Lorette.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty denied him entry, and Boym soon fell ill died, his letters undelivered.

Letter from the Empress Dowager Wang (the "honorary mother" of the Yongli Emperor ) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym .