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Also known as

• Lang-Yang-Cheu

Memorial

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

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Lay woman in the apostolic vicariate of Southeastern Zhili, China. She married Christian man, became a catechumen, and became a local model of Christian charity. Mother of Saint Paulus Lang Fu. Martyred in the anti–Christian persecutions of the Boxer Rebellion.

Born

• c.1871 in Lu, Qinghe, Hebei, China

Died

• tied to an ash tree, stabbed with spears, and body thrown into her house which the killers set on fire, on 16 July 1900 in Lujiapo, Qinghe, Hebei, China
• remains recovered from the burned house by her husband, and buried nearby

Venerated

• 22 February 1955 by Pope Pius XII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 17 April 1955 by Pope Pius XII

Canonized

• 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II

MLA Citation

• “Saint Yangzhi Lang“. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 January 2022. Web. 4 May 2024. <>