Italy/China: Teodorico Pedrini (30 June 1671 - 10 December 1746), Vincentian priest, missionary, musician and composer. Portrait, 1897. Paolo Filippo Teodorico Pedrini, known in China as De Lige, was born in Fermo, Italy. He became a missionary, travelling across the world, from Peru to the Mariana Islands to the Philippines before finally arriving in China. He became one of the first non-Jesuit missionaries to be allowed into the Imperial Court, and taught music to some of Emperor Kangxi’s sons. He established the first non-Jesuit church in Beijing, the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

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