 Other missionaries active in pre-modern Vietnam were Franciscans (in Cochinchina), Italian Dominicans & Discalced Augustinians (in Eastern Tonkin), and those sent by the "Propaganda Fide".The French missionary and Titular Bishop of Adran Pierre Pigneau de Behaine played a key role in Vietnamese history towards the end of the 18th century.He had come to southern Vietnam to proselytise.