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Martyr

Eugene Vasilyev Ji

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

Eugene Vasilyev Ji was a Manchu soldier of 47, an Orthodox Christian of Beijing. He was killed on 7 June 1900 (old style; 20 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, near the Dongzhimen gate of Beijing.

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