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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 12th of March WELCOME! SAINT JOSEPH ZHANG DAPENG, MARTYR Zhang Dapeng was born as a Buddhist in Duyun, Guizhou Province, in the year 1754. He grew up without any knowledge of the gospel. He later moved to the provincial capital Guiyang where he went into the silk business with a man named Mr Wang. It was through Mr Wang’s son that he first heard the good news of Christ’s salvation. Zhang Dapeng repented of his sins and put his faith in Jesus Christ. He was not allowed to receive baptism, however, because at the time of his conversion Zhang Dapeng kept a concubine, which was a standard practice for wealthy Chinese men at the time. A Chinese priest named Luo Madi was doing missionary efforts in neighbouring Sichuan at that time and he sent a Chinese lay missionary named Hu Shilu (Lawrence) to go to Guizhou to preach the faith and establish a mission there. Hu Shilu met Zhang Dapeng and had a long chat with him. Zhang Dapeng ...

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 14th of March WELCOME! SAINTS ACEPSIMAS, JOSEPH, AND AITHILAHAS, MARTYRS  (Saints Acepsimas, Bishop; Joseph, Priest; and Aithilahas, Deacon, Martyrs) St Maruthas closes with the acts of these martyrs, his history of the persecution of King Sapor, which raged without intermission during forty years.  A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT The venerable author assures us, that, living in the neighbourhood, he had carefully informed himself of the several circumstances of their combats from those who were eye-witnesses, and ushers in his account with the following address:  “Be propitious to me, O Lord, through the prayers of these martyrs. Being assisted by the divine grace, and strengthened by your protection, O ye incomparable men, I presume to draw the outlines of your heroic virtues and incredible torments. But the remembrance of your bitter sufferings covers me with shame, confusion, and tears, for myself and my sins. O! you who he...