Feast day: July 9
St. Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions
120 martyrs of China — 87 Chinese laypeople and 33 missionaries — spanning three centuries of persecution; Zhao Rong was a soldier converted by the courage of the prisoner he escorted.
Zhao Rong guarded a bishop being marched to execution, was converted by his patience, became a priest, and was martyred himself.
Image: Fayhoo (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
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