Euphemia

Euphemia was a woman aged 22, wife of Peter. She was killed on 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, in the grounds of the Mission.

On 1 June 1900 (old style) the Boxers attacked and destroyed the church and printing house of the mission in Beijing, and many Christians took shelter in the house of the priest Mitrophan Ji. 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. The sources give no further details about her.

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).