Vitt Hai

Vitt Hai was a man aged 29, son of Catherine Zhong. He was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising, at Cheng'ensi, where his body was also burned. The same list also names members of his family: wife Maria.

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. 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.

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).