Maria

Maria was a woman of 43, the wife of Myron Ionin Rui. She was killed on the night of 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. Her husband and their eight children suffered on the same day.

The Boxers had pressed the Orthodox to burn incense before the idols and to deny Christ; those who stayed faithful were killed, and their houses and churches were burned. 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.