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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
During the revolution, suicide squads were formed by Chinese students going into battle, knowing that they would be killed fighting against overwhelming odds. [2] The 72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang died in the uprising that began the Wuchang Uprising, and were recognized as heroes and martyrs by the Kuomintang party and the Republic of China. [3]
Mark Ji Tianxiang was a Chinese lay Catholic and doctor. He was martyred during the Boxer Rebellion and had been an opium addict. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was canonized in 2000 by Pope John Paul II .
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.
Chinese embassy representatives and North Korean officials in Pyongyang have attended a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of Chinese soldiers entering the Korean war. A wreath-laying ceremony ...
Martyrs of Nagasaki (1628 engraving). This page is a list of saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God from Asia, as recognized by the Catholic Church.These people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of Asia.
China has unveiled sweeping new regulations to tighten the release of information about its military online, a move that could obscure key sources for monitoring the world’s largest armed forces.