The Conversion of the Alani by the Franciscan Missionaries in China in the Fourteenth Century

Let this moreover be known to your Holiness, that for a long time we were instructed in the Catholic faith, and wholesomely governed and very much contorted [s/c] by your Legate Brother John, a valiant, holy and capable man, who nevertheless died eight years ago. In which years we have been without a governor and without spiritual consolation. . . . Wherefore we beseech your Holiness to send us a good, capable and wise legate who may care for our souls; and that he come quickly, because we fare ill without a head, without instruction, and without consolation.1 ^13