Catherine Zhong

Catherine Zhong was a widow aged 55, of Manchu stock. She was killed in 1900, during the Boxer Rising, at the Andingmen gate. The list does not give the day. The same list also names members of her family: sons Matthew Hai Quan, Vitt Hai, Nicephorus Hai and Cyril Hai; daughters Vassa Zhong and Helen Zhong.

Many Orthodox Christians were pressed at that time to renounce their faith in order to save their lives. Her name appears in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in the Boxer Rising, published in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China.

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).