Simon Qin Cunfu
Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Martyr Saints of China (traditional Chinese: 中華殉道聖人; simplified Chinese: 中华殉道圣人; pinyin: Zhōnghuá xùndào shèngrén), or Augustine Zhao Rong and his Companions, are 120 saints of the Catholic Church. The 87 Chinese Catholics and 33 Western missionaries from the mid-17th century to 1930 were martyred because of their ministry and, in some cases, for their refusal to apostatize.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Martyr Saints of China, which covers Simon Qin Cunfu with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- 120 martyrs of China Saint honoured together
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - Agostino Zhao Rong e 119 Compagni — Named among the Chinese martyrs as 'Beato Simone Qin Cunfu, di 14 anni'; canonised with the group in 2000, kept on 9 July.
- Wikidata Q4518502 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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