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==Lives==
[[image:Mitrophan.jpg|left|thumb|St Mitrophan, the spiritual father of and one of the Chinese Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion.]]
===Priest Mitrophan===The '''Holy Martyrs priest [[Mitrophan Ji|Mitrophan]] (also Metrophanes), whose Chinese name was Ji chong or Tsi Chung (the English transliterations vary), was born on [[December 10]], 1855. He lost his father in early childhood and was raised under the care of China''' were his grandmother Ekaterina and his mother Marina; his mother was a teacher at a school for women. At this time he experienced many troubles. When Archimandrite [[martyrPallady (Kafarov) of Beijing|Pallady]]ed became head of the mission for the second time, he charged his teacher Juren Long Yuan to take great care in educating Mitrophan, in order to prepare him for his eventual [[ordination]]. Before reaching twenty years of age, he was appointed to the Boxer Rebellion in 1900post of catechist. Their At 25 he was [[feast dayordination|ordained]] is celebrated on to the priesthood by Nikolai, [[June 10bishop]]of Japan.