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Teresa Zhang He
SaintResearchedDocumented cause
Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1864
Died
1900
Beatified
17 April 1955
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Canonised
1 October 2000
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Who they were
At Zhangjiaji near Ningjin, also in Hebei, Saint Teresa Zhang He, who in the same persecution, dragged into a pagoda, refused to venerate the local deities and for this was run through with a spear together with her two children.
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 16 July as a Boxer-persecution martyr who refused to venerate the local deities and was speared with her two children.
Connected on this site
- 120 martyrs of China Saint honoured together
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 16 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4515455 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.