Saint Ioannes Zhang Jingguang

Also known as

• Ruowang

Memorial

• 9 July
• 28 September as one of the Martyrs of China

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Seminarian in the apostolic vicariate of Northern Shanxi, China. Member of the Secular Franciscans. Martyred in the Boxer Rebellion.

Born

• c.1878 in Fujingcun, Taigu, Shanxi, China

Died

• beheaded on 9 July 1900 at Taiyuanfu, Shanxi, China

Venerated

• 3 January 1943 by Pope Pius XII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 24 November 1946 by Pope Pius XII

Canonized

• 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II in Rome

• books
  • Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
  • Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• other sites in english
  • American Catholic
  • Catholic Online
  • Hagiography Circle
  • Hagiography Circle
• sites en français
  • Fête des prénoms
• siti in italiano
  • Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
  • Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ioannes Zhang Jingguang“. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 July 2015. Web. 5 July 2015. <>