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Martyrs of China

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Apolytikion
Saint Ia, head teacher at the Orthodox Mission School, was away taken by the Boxers on [[June 10]], and severally slashed and beaten to near death and buried alive. A non-Christian sympathetic to her suffering, picked up her body and took her to his home and nursed her back to health. The Boxers, finding out Ia was still alive, arrested her yet again, and tortured her until her death, the Name of Christ on her lips as she died. St. Ia the Teacher is sometimes referred to as "Saint Ia the Twice-Martyred".
==ApolytikionApolytikia and Kondakia==:'''Apolytikion. Tone oneFrom the Greek Tradition''':Apolytikion, 1st Tone<br>
:''Minister to Christ, true priest of glory, reasonable sacrifice and blameless victim, thou gavest thyself up to the stadium with thy flock, O father, [[Mitrophan Ji|Chi - Sung]] in Beijing. Therefore pray for us who keep thy precious memory with faith»''
:'''Apolytikion. , 2nd Tone two'''<br>
:''Thou hast become a participator in the customs of the Apostles and a successor to their throne thou hast found the way of ascending to behold God, by thy faithful struggle unto blood with thy flock in Beijing, O God inspired, hieromartyr Chi - Sung Pray to Christ our God, that our souls might be saved.''
 
'''From the Russian Tradition'''<br>
:Troparion, 5th Tone<br>
:In a pagan land ye were enlightened by the Orthodox Faith, / and having lived in the Faith but a little time, / ye inherited the eternal Kingdom. / By the purity of your Christian ways / ye put to shame the false Confucian piety / and trampled demon-inspired Buddhism underfoot as refuse, / sanctifying the Chinese land with your blood. / Wherefore, we pray: / Entreat the Master of all / that He enlighten your land with Orthodoxy in these latter times, // and strengthen us therein.
 
:Kontakion, 1st Tone<br>
:O Martyrs of these latter times, / ye whitened your garments in the blood of the Lamb, / and shed your own blood for Christ. / Wherefore, ye now minister unto Him day and night / in the Church of heaven. / Therefore, entreat Christ for us, O glorious Martyrs, / that He hide His little flock from the beguilement of Antichrist, / and that He lead all of us out of great tribulation // unto a land of never-waning light.
==Megalynarion==
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