We are told that 25 000 Catholics in China and 43 European missionaries were martyred during the course of the Boxer Rebellion in China in the year 1900. The dowager empress, Tzu Chi, more or less approved the rebellion of the Boxers, even to the point of providing imperial troops in support of this conflagration.
Blessed Gregory Grassi and his companions were Franciscans who suffered a horrible fate during this period.
More details can be read here: Franciscan Book of Saints
Collect
O God, who desires that all men be saved and come to the acknowledgement of truth, grant, we beseech Thee, through the intercession of Thy blessed martyrs Bishops Gregory, Francis, and Antonine, and their companions, that all nations may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent, our Lord. Amen.
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