Qualla: Mằng Lăng Church https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Mằng Lăng Church https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church Mằng Lăng Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church/ In 1651, a book was printed in Rome that would eventually reshape how Vietnamese is written. Its author, Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes, had composed it — a catechism in Latin and Vietnamese called *Phép giảng tám ngày*, or *Cathechismus in octo dies* — not in Rome but here, in a settlement along the Kỳ Lộ River in what was then the frontier of Vietnamese territory. The village was called Mằng Lăng, named for a local tree species. The text he wrote here became the foundation for quốc ngữ, the romanized script that Vietnamese speakers use today. A copy of that book now sits in a glass case in an underground bunker beneath the churchyard, recognized as a national record for the oldest quốc ngữ book in Vietnam.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/m/e/mang-lang-church-wp/w6me-m-ng-l-ng-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mằng Lăng Church: The Script That Changed a Language https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church/ Quốc ngữ — literally "national script" — was not Alexandre de Rhodes's invention alone. Earlier Portuguese Jesuit missionaries had begun adapting the Roman alphabet to Vietnamese phonology in the early 17th century, and de Rhodes built on their work. But his 1651 catechism was th...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/m/e/mang-lang-church-wp/w6me-m-ng-l-ng-church-the-script-that-changed-a-language.mp3 0:06 2 full Mằng Lăng Church: Andrew of Phú Yên https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church/ Mằng Lăng is also where Andrew — Anrê Phú Yên — was born, around 1625. He was baptized young and became a catechist under de Rhodes. When he was arrested by Vietnamese authorities in 1644, he was barely nineteen years old. He was executed — beheaded, with his heart removed and di...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/m/e/mang-lang-church-wp/w6me-m-ng-l-ng-church-andrew-of-ph-y-n.mp3 0:06 3 full Mằng Lăng Church: A Gothic Church in the Tropics https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church/ The present church building dates to 1892, constructed under French missionary Father Joseph de La Cassagne — known locally as Cố Xuân — who served as the first parish priest. It is Gothic in style: pointed arches, two bell towers flanking a central cross, ornate patterned surfac...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/m/e/mang-lang-church-wp/w6me-m-ng-l-ng-church-a-gothic-church-in-the-tropics.mp3 0:06 4 full Mằng Lăng Church: A Frontier Since the 15th Century https://qualla.com/mang-lang-church/ The historical roots of this site run deeper than Christianity. Vietnamese border settlements in Phú Yên were documented as early as 1475 during the Lê dynasty, meaning this region was already being incorporated into the Vietnamese state four centuries before the church was built...

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