Stephen

Stephen was a boy of 7, son of Paul Nikolaev Dong. He was killed on 20 June 1900 (old style; 3 July in the new), during the Boxer Rising, in the Zhuangwang grounds in Xicheng, in the western part of the city.

In June 1900 proclamations were posted in the streets of Beijing calling for the killing of Christians and threatening with death anyone who sheltered them. His 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 him.

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).