Zoe Shuang

Zoe Shuang was a widow aged 45, of Mongol stock. She was killed on 11 June 1900 (old style; 24 June in the new), during the Boxer Rising. The same list also names members of her family: son Andrew; daughter Alexandra.

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 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.

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).