Martyr Saints of China
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title:
Martyr Saints of China
text:
The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize. Many died in the Boxer Rebellion, in which anti-Western peasant rebels slaughtered 30,000 Chinese converts to Christianity along with missionaries and other foreigners. In the General Roman Calendar of 1969, th
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Catholic martyrs from several centuries canonized by John Paul II in 2000
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr_Saints_of_China
date created:
2007-07-04T03:27:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T20:55:56Z
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