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Martyr

Marina

Chinese Orthodox Christian woman, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.

Feast
June 11old style June 24
Reposed
190020th century
Place
Beijing
Order
Martyrs

Life

Marina was a woman aged 29, wife of Victor Fu. She was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, at Shichahai, by the Houmen gate.

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 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. The sources give no further details about her.

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).

Commemorated the same day June 11