Helen

Helen was a woman aged 49, wife of Innocent Fan. She was tortured twice, the first time at the Beiguan compound and then in the grounds of the Mission, during the Boxer Rising. The list gives the dates 1 and 10 June 1900 (old style) for her and counts her among the killed.

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.

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).