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To piece together Robert’s story, the narrator visits the historic St. Louis Church in Taiping, established in 1897, a time when Robert was believed to have been attending mass. Engaging with the local church archivist, they delve into marriage and baptism records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In doing so, they discover Robert's marriage to Katherine Go on October 30, 1897—and an intriguing detail: Katherine had converted to Catholicism a day before their wedding, possibly indicating her desire for an official, religious union.