| St. Marie of Saint Just | |
| Titles: | Missionary and Martyr of China |
| Birth Date: | 9 April 1866 |
| Birth Place: | Rouans, Loire-Inférieure |
| Death Date: | 9 July 1900 |
| Death Place: | Taiyuan, Shanxi |
| Feast Day: | 9 July |
| Canonized Date: | 1 October 2000 |
| Canonized By: | Pope John Paul II |
| Venerated In: | Roman Catholicism |
Marie of Saint Just, born Anne-Françoise Moreau (9 April 1866 - 9 July 1900) was a French nun in the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She was one of the 120 Martyrs of China. She died in the province of Shanxi. .
During the Boxer Rebellion, she was killed on 9 July 1900 at Taiyuan. John Paul II canonized her on 1 October 2000.
She was born in 1866.[1]
In 1899 she was one of a group of seven sisters from the order of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who went to Taiyuan, China, arriving on 4 May 1899, to help at an orphanage at the mission there under bishop Gregorio Grassi. At the orphanage, which soon cared for 200 children. Their Mother Superior was Marie-Hermine of Jesus.
On 5 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the Christians at the mission were ordered to renounce their faith or face death; at 4pm on 9 July the priests, nuns, seminarians and Christian lay workers were all killed, in what is known as the Taiyuan massacre.[2] It is estimated that 250 foreigners died during the Boxer rebellion. Some of these were embassy staff, but most were missionaries. It is thought that 100,000 Chinese people may have died.[3]
Marie of Saint Just was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 24 November 1946 and later canonised by on 1 October 2000.[4] [5]