 Seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries Girolamo Maiorica compiled the first "chữ Nôm" catechism ("Thiên Chúa thánh giáo khải mông" 天主聖教啟蒙) in 1623, and Alexandre de Rhodes printed the first texts in "chữ Quốc ngữ", including a Catholic catechism, in Rome 1651.However, the Bible was not translated.Some portions of the Bible may have been translated and printed in Thailand in 1872.