आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

(1577–1656) Jesuit priest and missionary
who spent much of his life in Madurai in
southern India. Di Nobili came to India
to convert Indians to Catholicism and to
facilitate his attempt at following the
Jesuit pattern of learning the local languages, in this case Sanskrit (sacred language) and Tamil. He also strove to
understand local culture and to gain the
ritual authority that came with brahmin
(priestly) status by emulating brahmin
practices (vegetarianism, modes of
dress, etc.), as a way to spread the
Gospel more effectively. He was a perceptive and careful observer, but his
writings remained unpublished during
his lifetime. They have only been recently
rediscovered. See also Tamil language.