Abstract
This aims to investigate Christians presented in the 13th century Syriac document, The History of Rabban Sauma and Yahballaha III, which is about travel of Rabban Sauma and his disciple Markos (later Yahballaha III) from China to Mesopotamia and Western Europe. In other words, its purpose is to explore Nestorians or Nestorian Christians that the 13th-14th century Francis missionaries and Marco Polo met in Khanbaliq and China. In this study, it 1) is explored how Christians in the East were called and named in the Syriac source, and then 2) analyze their origin of faith and Christology revealed through the mouth of Rabban Sauma. As a result, this argues that Mongol Christians including the two protagonists in the Mongol Empire understood themselves as a member of the Church of the East who had inherited the tradition of apostles.
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