Martyr
Maria
Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
Life
Maria was the youngest of the children of the Orthodox peasant Alexei Zhang Furong of the village of Dongding'an, near Beijing, a girl of 3. She was killed on 25 May 1900 (old style; 7 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, on the same day as her parents and her siblings Evdokia, Nikita and Michael.
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.
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