The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c24.43

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4. The careful consideration of all these prejudices led to the natural conclusion that the mode of living of missionaries had to be changed in order to attract the Hindus to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Blessed John de Britto, in a letter of 1683, wrote to this effect: "Fr. Roberto de Nobili, of revered memory, that great servant of God and that model of missionaries, having acquired a most complete knowledge of all these prejudices, and being persuaded with St. Ambrose that *primus discendi ardor nobilitas est magistri*¹, made himself all things to all men that he might win them all to Jesus Christ" ².