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SUMMARY:Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions
DESCRIPTION:Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions\nSaint of the Day for July 9\n(d. 1648 – 1930)\nhttps://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SODJul09.mp3\nSaint Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions’ Story\nChristianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Depending on China’s relations with the outside world\, Christianity over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly. \nThe 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930. Eighty-seven of them were born in China\, and were children\, parents\, catechists\, or laborers\, ranging in age from nine years to 72. This group includes four Chinese diocesan priests. The 33 foreign-born martyrs were mostly priests or women religious\, especially from the Order of Preachers\, the Paris Foreign Mission Society\, the Friars Minor\, Society of Jesus\, Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians)\, and Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. \nAugustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Mission Society to his martyrdom in Beijing. Not long after his baptism\, Augustine was ordained as a diocesan priest. He was martyred in 1815. \nBeatified in groups at various times\, these 120 martyrs were canonized together in Rome on October 1\, 2000. \n\nReflection\nThe People’s Republic of China and the Roman Catholic Church each have well over a billion members\, but there are only about 12 million Catholics in China. The reasons for that are better explained by historical conflicts than by a wholesale rejection of the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Chinese-born martyrs honored by today’s feast were regarded by their persecutors as dangerous because they were considered allies of enemy\, Catholic countries. The martyrs born outside China often tried to distance themselves from European political struggles relating to China\, but their persecutors saw them as Westerners and therefore\, by definition\, anti-Chinese. \nThe Good News of Jesus Christ is intended to benefit all peoples; today’s martyrs knew that. May 21st-century Christians live in such a way that Chinese women and men will be attracted to hear that Good News and embrace it.
URL:https://www.thefranciscanfriars.org/event/saint-augustine-zhao-rong-and-companions/2018-07-09/
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