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Thaddeus Liu
SaintFull write-upDocumented cause
Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1773
Died
1823
Beatified
27 May 1900
unverified
Canonised
1 October 2000
unverified
Who they were
At Quxian in the province of Sichuan in China, Saint Thaddeus Liu Ruiting, priest and martyr, strangled out of hatred for the faith.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 30 November as a priest strangled in Sichuan out of hatred for the faith.
Connected on this site
- 120 martyrs of China Saint honoured together
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 30 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4271306 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Thaddeus Liu (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.