Martyr
Aquilina
Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
Life
Aquilina was a young woman of 25, the wife of Paul Konstantinov Shuang. She was killed on 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, in her own house, near the Orthodox Mission in Beijing. Her husband and their children suffered on the same day.
On 10 June 1900 proclamations were posted on the walls of Beijing calling on the people to slaughter all Christians. 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.
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