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Christian feast day: Lucy Yi Zhenmei (one of Martyrs of Guizhou)
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Lucy Yi Zhenmei
Chinese Catholic saint (1815–1862)
Lucy Yi Zhenmei was a Sichuanese Catholic saint from Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China. She is the lone woman of the five Guizhou Martyrs, a subset of the much larger Martyr Saints of China. She is referred to as Bienheureuse Lucie Y in old French sources.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Martyr Saints of China
Catholic martyrs from several centuries canonized by John Paul II in 2000
The Martyr Saints of China, or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)