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Martyr

Anna

Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.

Feast
June 11old style June 24
Reposed
190020th century
Place
Beijing
Order
Martyrs

Life

Anna was a woman aged 36, daughter of George. She was killed in 1900, during the Boxer Rising, at the Haidaimen gate. The list does not give the day.

The Albazinians are the descendants of the Russian prisoners from Albazin, brought to Beijing in 1685, with whom the Orthodox community in China began. Her name stands in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in 1900, drawn up in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China, on the testimony of relatives, neighbours and witnesses. The sources give no further details about her.

In 1902 the Holy Synod of the Russian Church allowed the local veneration of the Chinese martyrs, and in 2016 its Council of Bishops blessed their veneration throughout the Russian Church. They are commemorated together on 11 June (old style).

Commemorated the same day June 11