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Martyr

Euphemia

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

Euphemia was the wife of the Orthodox peasant Alexei Zhang Furong of the village of Dongding'an, near Beijing, and was 44 years old. She was killed on 25 May 1900 (old style; 7 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, on the same day as her husband and their children.

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, on the testimony of relatives, neighbours and witnesses. No other details about her are preserved.

Commemorated the same day June 11