Martyr
Helen
Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
Life
Helen was a girl of 4, the youngest of the children of Myron Ionin Rui. She was killed on 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. She suffered together with her parents and her brothers and sisters.
On 10 June 1900 proclamations were posted on the walls of Beijing calling on the people to slaughter all Christians. 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.
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