ABSTRACT
On the fifteenth of August, 1712, I at last obtained permission from our General, the Very Reverend Father Michelangelo Tamburini, to go to the East Indies, and was ordered to open and Start missions in the kingdoms of Thibet (a thing that had been attempted several times since 1624). Between the twenty-first and the twenty-eighth of August I was ordained, and on the thirty-first celebrated Holy Mass for the first time.
