Marie de la Paix Giuliani
Italian nun, missionary, martyr, Catholic saint (1875–1900)
Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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
- Roman Martyrology, 9 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4160548 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Marie de la Paix Giuliani (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.