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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Marina Xu

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 Xu was a widow aged 44, a bannerman and a teacher at the girls' school. She was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising.

The bannermen were the men enrolled in the banners, the military and administrative divisions of the Qing dynasty. Her name appears in the list of the 222 Orthodox Christians killed in the Boxer Rising, published in 1904 by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Church in China. 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