Tomb of Matteo Ricci, first Jesuit to successfully infiltrate China. The Jesuit order infiltrated the Chinese courts in the 17th Century to open China for the Roman Catholic missions. Here, a number of scholars believe, the Jesuits carried out their program of destroying and altering historical records of competing Christian sects. B.G. Wilkinson, Truth Triumphant, p.359-364 [previous document] [back to Index] [next document] [Approaching the End] .