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(15) THEOTIMUS VERHAEGHEN AND
19 COMPANIONS
FROM THE
APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF SOUTHWESTERN HUBEI (YICHANG)
1820 in Qizhou, Hubei (China)
1. RU GUISEN PAULUS
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
1875 in Qizhou, Hubei (China)
2. XIUGU MARIA
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
3. BAOGU MARIA
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
11 December 1898
in Sikoushan, Yichang, Hubei (China)
4. JOZEF JAN LAMBERTUS DELBROUCK (VICTORINUS)
professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor
born: 14 May 1870 in Boirs, Tongeren, Limburg (Belgium)
5. BI GAIBANG
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
6. ZHOU JIAXIN
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
7. FANG SHANGLIN
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
8. HU DAJI
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
9. ZHOU XIULIE
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
10. LI DAOXIAN
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
19 July 1904 in Shazidi, Hubei (China)
 
11. JOZEF PETRUS VERHAEGHEN (THEOTIMUS)
professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor;
apostolic vicar of Southwest Hubei
born: 19 January 1867 in Mechelen, Antwerp (Belgium)
12.
EMMANUEL VERHAEGHEN (FREDERICUS)
professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor
born: 10 May 1872 in Mechelen, Antwerp (Belgium)
 13.
GEORGIUS ERNESTUS ROBBERECHT (FLORENTIUS)
professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor
born: 22 April 1875 in Tielt, West Flanders (Belgium)
14. HUANG ZHAOBIN IOSEPHUS
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
15. JIA SHANGDAI FRANCISCUS
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
16. HUANG ZHANGSHI MARIA
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
17. HE DENYU
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei; catechumen
born:
18. LI GUANQIAN IOANNES BAPTISTA
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
19. HU JIFU IOANNES
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
20. WANG GABRIEL
layperson of the apostolic vicariate of Southwest Hubei
born:
competent forum:
Yichang
CCS protocol number:
653
type of cause:
martyrdom
opening of diocesan inquiry:
closing of diocesan inquiry:
introduction of cause: 10 December 1926
opening of
apostolic process:
closing of
apostolic process:
decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 20 April 1932
antepreparatory congregation:
decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:
publication of Positio:
session of historical consultors:
particular congress of theological consultors:
ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:
postulator:
petitioner: Minderbroedersklooster, Capucienessenstraat 1-3, 3800 Sint-Truiden,
BELGIUM
website:
Note: This cause has been transformed
dramatically in the passing of time. When the cause was introduced on 10 December 1926, it was was originally entitled
Gregorius Grassi, Franciscus
Fogolla, Antoninus Fantosati, Theotimus Verhaegen, et 2,414 Socii. It covered the alleged martyrs in the
five apostolic vicariates under the Franciscan Friars Minor [namely: Northern Shanxi (Taiyuan), Southern Shanxi
(Changzhi), Southwest Hubei
(Yichang), Northern Shandong (Jinan), and Southern Hunan (Hengyang)] killed in five separate years (namely:
1820, 1875, 1898, 1900, and 1904). Because of the enormity in the number of martyrs, the Office of the General Postulator of the Franciscan
Friars Minor decided to work on the cause piecemeal. In 1941, the 29
individuals killed during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 were formed into one cause entitled
Gregorius Grassi et 28 Socii; eventually, they were beatified by Pope Pius
XII on 24 November 1946 [see
Martyrs of China (I)
(these martyrs are marked with a single
†)]. The remaining alleged martyrs were reevaluated and the number was reduced so that, when
the cause entered the judicial phase called “antepreparatory congress” on 14 January 1964, it was renamed Theotimus Verhaegen et 126 Socii. The cause has remained
inactive since then. However, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has informed the Hagiography Circle in
January 2004 that the number of martyrs in the cause has been further curtailed. Presently, then,
the official name of the cause is Theotimus Verhaegen et 19 Socii.
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1. FRANCISCUS
HUBERTUS [FRANS] SCHRAVEN
3.
Starogard Gdański (Poland) 
Hebei (China)
