Matteo Ricci befriended many Chinese scholars, including the Confucian scholar Qu Taisu and Li Zhizao, Xu Guangqi, and Yang Tingyun, who became known as the “Three Pillars of the Early Catholic Church” in China and who assisted the Jesuit missionaries, especially in their literary efforts. He also befriended Feng Yingjing, a scholar and civic official who was imprisoned in Beijing.
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