Gregory Grassi

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Gregory Grassi
birth_date=December 13, 1823
death_date=July 9, 1900
feast_day=July 9
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Italy
death_place=China
titles=Martyr
beatified_date=November 27, 1946
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canonized_date=October 1 2000
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canonized_by=Pope John Paul II
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issues=Christianity in China PortalSaint Gregory Grassi or Gregorio Maria Grassi (1890–July 9, 1900) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint.

Grassi was born in Italy in 1833, ordained in 1856 and sent to China five years later. Grassi was later ordained Bishop of North Shanxi. With 14 other European missionaries and 14 Chinese religious, he was martyred during the short but bloody Boxer Uprising of 1900.

Throughout China during the Boxer Uprising, five bishops, 50 priests, two brothers, 15 sisters and 40,000 Chinese Christians were killed. The 146,575 Catholics served by the Franciscans in China in 1906 had grown to 303,760 by 1924 and were served by 282 Franciscans and 174 local priests.

ee also

Martyr Saints of China

External links

* [http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1438 St. Gregory Grassi and Companions]