Mary Guo

Who they were

In the village of Hujiacun near Shenxian, also in Hebei, Saint Mary Guo Lizhi, martyr, who in the same persecution, like a second mother of the Maccabees, urged steadfastness on seven of her relatives whom she accompanied to the place of execution and, asking to be killed herself afterwards, followed those whom she had sent ahead to heaven.

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 7 July as a martyr who, like the mother of the Maccabees, encouraged seven relatives to their deaths and then asked to die herself.

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