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Martyr

Clement Kui

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

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

Life

Clement Kui was the sexton of the church at Beijing, aged 36, the son of the widow Ia Wen. He was killed on 2 June 1900 (old style; 15 June in the new), as the list gives it, during the Boxer Rising, at the Andingmen gate. His wife Barbara and their children Maria, Olga and Ia were killed on 11 June. The Synaxarion of the Chinese martyrs by Piperakis calls him Clement Kui-⁠Kin and counts him among the descendants of the Albazinians.

His 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. No other details about him are preserved.

Commemorated the same day June 11