Joseph Zhang Wenlan

Who they were

In the city of Qingyan in the province of Guizhou in China, Saints martyrs Joseph Zhang Wenlan, Paul Chen Changpin, seminarians, John Baptist Luo Tingyin, administrator of the seminary, and Martha Wang Luozhi, widow, who, shut in a hot and damp quarry, suffered atrocious tortures, finally dying beheaded for the faith of Christ.

The miracles

The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 29 July as one of the martyrs of Qingyan in Guizhou, beheaded for the faith of Christ.

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