1. Agatha Lin, born in Qinglong in the Guizhou province of southwest China in 1817, was a Chinese saint and martyr.
16 Facts About Agatha Lin
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Agatha Lin was a headmistress and catechist, and one of the first to evangelize the Miao people.
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Agatha Lin was beheaded for her faith on January 28,1858.
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Agatha Lin, born Lin Zhao, was born in the village of Machang in the Qinglong district of Guizhou in 1817.
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Agatha Lin's father was a salt merchant, and both parents, who were "fervent Christians", had been converted to Christianity by Zhang Dapeng.
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Agatha Lin was baptized when she was three days old, though her father was in prison at the time for refusing to renounce his Catholic faith.
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Agatha Lin's parents taught Agatha to read and write, and her mother trained her to become an expert in needlework.
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When she was young, Agatha Lin took "a private vow of virginity".
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Two months later, the school was closed due to persecution, and Agatha Lin went to Longping, near Zunyi, with the school's head teacher and studied there for two years.
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Agatha Lin returned home to discover that her father had been re-arrested, and she stayed to care for her aging mother.
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Agatha Lin moved to Guiyang to become the director of a house of formation for consecrated virgins under Bishop Etienne Albrand.
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Agatha Lin's father bequeathed her enough money that she was able to buy a house near Xinggi, which served as a chapel and school.
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Agatha Lin was one of the first to evangelize the Miao people.
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In 1858 the village where Agatha Lin was living was raided.
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Agatha Lin was arrested alongside another catechist, Jerome Lu Tingmei.
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Agatha Lin was beatified by Pope Pius X in 1909, and was canonized in 1984.