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Martyrs' Day (simplified Chinese: 烈士纪念 日; traditional Chinese: 烈士紀念日) is celebrated in China on September 30, the eve of the National Day of the People's Republic of China, to commemorate those who lost their lives serving China. [1] It was created by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 2014. [2]
Chinese Martyrs (traditional Chinese: 中華殉道聖人; simplified Chinese: 中华殉道圣人; pinyin: Zhōnghuá xùndào shèngrén; Wade–Giles: Chung 1-hua 2 hsun 4-tao 4 shêng 4-jên 2) is the name given to a number of members of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church who were killed in China during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
New martyrs of China altar, Binondo Chinese Parish Church Besides all those already mentioned who were killed by the Boxers, there were the following: Alberic Crescitelli , a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions of Milan , who carried out his ministry in Southern Shaanxi and was martyred on 21 July 1900
Lucy Yi Zhenmei [a] (December 9, 1815 – February 19, 1862) was a Sichuanese Catholic saint from Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China. She is the lone woman of the five Guizhou Martyrs, a subset of the much larger Martyr Saints of China. She is referred to as Bienheureuse Lucie Y ('Blessed Lucy Yi') in old French sources. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Mark Ji Tianxiang was beatified on 24 November 1946 by Pope Pius XII along with 120 other Chinese martyrs, including Augustine Zhao Rong, and canonized by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 2000. [ 7 ] [ 5 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
Hundreds of other Chinese Orthodox Christians were also murdered during the Boxer Rebellion and are also considered martyrs by their church and remembered with their bishop. [4] [5] Roman Catholic and Protestant Chinese and foreign missionaries were killed as well. Though the communist government in China criticized the Roman Catholic Church ...
Anna was born in 1886 at Machiazhuang, Hebei, China.She was born in a poor Christian family. She lost her mother when she was five years old. She was made strong in religion by receiving religious education from the nun Lucy Wang.
The Huanghuakang was built as a monument to the 72 martyrs. [6] The martyrdom of the revolutionaries helped the establishment of the Republic of China, overthrowing the Qing dynasty imperial system. [7] "Dare to Die" corps continued to be used in the Chinese military. The Kuomintang used one to put down an insurrection in Canton. [8]