St. Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Mission Society to his martyrdom in Beijing. Moved by his patience Augustine becomes Chinese diocesan priest who was savagely tortured and was martyred in 1815.
Among 119 martyrs there was an eighteen year old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were preparing to flay him alive: "Every piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian."
Often times it might seem everything is over but there will be someone to carry on.
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