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Marie de la Paix Giuliani

Italian nun, missionary, martyr, Catholic saint (1875–1900)

SaintResearchedKingdom of ItalyFranciscan Missionaries of MaryDocumented cause

Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1875
Died
1900
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
1 October 2000
unverified

Who they were

In the city of Taiyuan in the province of Shanxi, also in China, the passion of Saints Gregory Grassi and Francis Fogolla, bishops of the Order of Friars Minor, and twenty-four companions, martyrs, who during the persecution by the followers of the Boxer sect were killed out of hatred for the name of Christ.

Among those named is Saint Marie de la Paix Giuliani, a religious of the Institute of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.

The miracles

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

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 9 July among the twenty-four companions of Saints Gregory Grassi and Francis Fogolla, killed at Taiyuan in the Boxer persecution.

Connected on this site

  • 120 martyrs of China Saint honoured together
  • Gregory Grassi Saint
    “In the city of Taiyuan in the province of Shanxi, also in China, the passion of Saints Gregory Grassi and Francis Fogolla, bishops of the Order of Friars Minor, and twenty-four companions, martyrs, who during the persecution by the followers of the Boxer sect were killed out of hatred for the name of Christ.” — this site's research
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