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Martyr

Catherine

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

Feast
June 11old style June 24
Reposed
190019th century
Place
Beijing
Order
Martyrs

Life

Catherine was a woman of 52, the wife of Trophimus Gong. She was killed on the night of 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. Her husband Trophimus and her son Daniel De suffered on the same day.

The Boxers had pressed the Orthodox to burn incense before the idols and to deny Christ; those who stayed faithful were killed, and their houses and churches were burned. 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.

Commemorated the same day June 11