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Martyr

Maria

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

Maria was a girl of 15, the daughter of Clement Kui, a descendant of the Albazinians. She was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, at the Andingmen gate, near the Ditan shrine. Her younger sisters Olga and Ia suffered on the same day, as did their mother Barbara.

The Albazinians are the descendants of the Russian prisoners from Albazin, brought to Beijing in 1685, with whom the Orthodox community in China began. 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.

Commemorated the same day June 11