Life
She was born in 1866. In 1899 she was one of a group of seven sisters from the order of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who went to Taiyuan, China, arriving on 4 May 1899, to help at an orphanage at the mission there under bishop Gregorio Grassi. At the orphanage, which soon cared for 200 children. Their Mother Superior was Marie-Hermine of Jesus. On 5 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Christians at the mission were ordered to renounce their faith or face death; at 4pm on 9 July the priests, nuns, seminarians and Christian lay workers were all killed, in what is known as the Taiyuan massacre. It is estimated that 250 foreigners died during the Boxer rebellion. Some of these were embassy staff, but most were missionaries. It is thought that 100,000 Chinese people may have died. Marie of Saint Just was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 24 November 1946 and later canonised by on 1 October 2000.References
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