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Martyr

Myron Ionin Rui

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

Feast
June 11old style June 24
Reposed
190019th century
Place
Beijing
Order
Martyrs

Life

Myron Ionin Rui was a man of 49, the father of eight children. He was killed on 10 June 1900 (old style; 23 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, in his own house, near the Orthodox Mission in Beijing. His wife Maria and their children Martha, Anastasia, Evdokia, Innocent, Sabbas, Nilus, Maria and Helen were killed on the same day.

His 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 him are preserved.

Commemorated the same day June 11