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Hieromartyr Metrophanes and the Martyrs of China

Also known as Metrophanes Chang · the Chinese Martyrs of the Boxer Rising

Metrophanes, the first Chinese Orthodox priest, with his family and some two hundred and twenty-two of the Orthodox faithful of Peking, who were killed for Christ during the Boxer Rising of 1900.

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Notes

Named group commemorated as one; not St Metrophanes of Constantinople (Jun 4, OS-1279).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints