In 1898 seven sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary were sent to the Shanxi diocese in China to serve the poor in hospitals, and care for the unwanted or other destitutes in orphanages. There they all died in one of the periodic crackdowns against foreign missionaries. They were beheaded on July 9, 1900 at Taiyuanfu, China. They were Beatified on November 24, 1946 by Pope Pius...