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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 29th of July WELCOME! SAINT JOSEPH ZHANG WENLAN AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Chinese Priests in their Ecclesiastical Robes, Canton, China - 1/1/1919 The Tsingay seminary for the training of Catholic priests in Yaojiaguan (姚家关), China, which had been opened by Bishop Hu, was raided by Christophobic soldiers in 1861. Three seminarians, Saint Joseph Zhang Wenlan, Saint Paul Chen Changpin , and Saint John Baptist Luo Tingyin were arrested for being Christians and afterwards sentenced to death.  Along the way, all of them 'showed on their faces the peace and joy that rose from courage to die for their Catholic Faith, as they prayed up to the last minute before entering the glory of martyrdom'. All four, including Saint Martha Wang Luo Mande , the Christian Seminary cook, who had accompanied them, were decapitated for the sake of Jesus Christ on July 29, 1861. PRAYER: Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 29th of July WELCOME! SAINT MARTHA WANG LUO MANDE, WIDOW AND MARTYR On “…29th July, one of the saints remembered by the Church is St Martha Wang Luo Mande, who is one of the Chinese Martyrs canonised by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000. St Martha was born in 1812 in the town of Zunji and later lived with her husband in Qingyian, where they owned a small vegetable farm. Childless, they adopted two nephews. ST MARTHA BECAME INTRIGUED BY THE MESSAGE OF JESUS After her husband died the two adopted sons left home and St Martha moved to the edge of town where she operated a small inn. When a Catholic from Yoajiaguan came to catechize the people of Qingyian, St Martha became intrigued by the message of Jesus and she became converted to the Catholic Faith on Christmas Day 1852. SHE BECAME CATHOLIC Desiring a greater access to Mass and other Christians, St Martha moved to Guiyang where she worked as a cook in a Catholic hostel for y...