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Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

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Zhengding Missionary Murder

1937 kidnapping and murder of nine Catholic priests in Hebei, Republic-era China

The Zhengding Missionary Murder is an incident in which nine Catholic priests were kidnapped and killed in Zhengding, Hebei province, Republic-era China on October 9, 1937.
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Zhengding Town

Town in Hebei, People's Republic of China

Zhengding (正定), originally Zhending and alternately romanized as Chengting is a town in and being the seat of Zhengding County, in southwestern Hebei province, China, located just to the north of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, in between China National Highway 107 and G4…
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