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English: Letter from the Empress Dowager Helena Wang to the Pope, asking for help against the Manchu invaders. It is also written in the name of the Yongli Emperor's mother (Empress Dowager Maria Ma) and wife (Empress Consort Anna Wang), as well as his infant son, Crown Prince Constantine Zhu.
Latina: Interpretatio Literarum Sinicarum, ab Imperii Sinicum Imperatrice D. Helena, nomine suo, & Reginæ Matris D. Annæ, & Reginæ uxoris D. Mariæ, nec non filii Imperatoris Principis & Hæredis D. Constantini missarum, AD SANCTISSIMUM D. N.
Per Patres Andream Xavier, & Michaëlem Boym Societatis Jesu, in Aula Imperatoris Sinensis pro tempore Assistentes, facta. |
| Date | Letter written 1650-11-04; this book published 1667 |
| Source | Athanasius Kircher, "China monumentis: qua sacris quà profanis, ...", p. 101 |
| Author | Empress Dowager Helena Wang (the widow of the father of the Yongli Emperor). Latin translation by Michael Boym and A. Koffler. Publication by A. Kircher |
English translation and comments can be found in Struve (1993), "Voice from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm...", pp. 235-238
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