{{Short description|Catholic Saint}} {{Infobox saint |honorific-prefix=Saint |name=Anna Wang<br> 王亞納 |image= |caption= |titles=Martyr |birth_date=1886 |birth_place=Majiazhuang, Hebei, China |death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|1900|7|22|1886}} |death_place=Majiazhuang, Hebei, China |feast_day=22 July |venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church |beatified_date=17 April 1955 |beatified_place=Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City |beatified_by=Pope Pius XII |canonized_date=1 October 2000 |canonized_place=Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City |canonized_by=Pope John Paul II |major_shrine= |attributes= |patronage=China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Youth, Innocent, Chinese diaspora |issues= |suppressed_date= |module= |birth_name= }} '''Anna Wang''' ({{langx|zh|王亞納}}) was a Catholic lay girl who was martyred during the Boxer Rebellion.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=2019-08-05|title=Saint Anna Wang - Saint of the Day - July 22 -|url=https://catholicreadings.org/saint-anna-wang-saint-of-the-day-july-22/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Catholic Daily Readings|language=en-US}}</ref> She was declared a saint by John Paul II. She is one of the Martyrs of China.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Pris|date=2015-05-16|title=Saint Anna Wang|url=https://catholico.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/saint-anna-wang/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=† My Little Catholic Nook ツ|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Wang|first=Anna|date=|title=St. Anna Wang 1886-1900 |url=https://ace.nd.edu/images/ACE-ENL/Multicultural-Saints/stannawang.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101175913/https://ace.nd.edu/images/ACE-ENL/Multicultural-Saints/stannawang.pdf |archive-date=2020-11-01 |access-date=|website=}}</ref>
== Early life == Anna was born in 1886 in Majiazhuang, Hebei, China, to a poor Christian family. She lost her mother at five years old and was given a religious education by nun Lucy Wang. She was set to be married at eleven, but refused. She was a devout Catholic.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />
== Martyrdom == On July 21, 1900, a group of armed members of the Boxer Rebellion came to Anna's village to kill the Christians and burn down the church. The Boxers told each Christian to renounce their faith or die. Anna, along with a few other Christians, refused to renounce their faith. Anna and her companions were beheaded, and her body was dumped together with others in a mass grave. She was 14 years old. Her body was exhumed and given proper burial on November 6, 1901.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=St. Anna Wang1886-1900 AD|url=https://hnojatl.org/en/saints-2/st-anna-wang/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Holy Name of Jesus Church|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Canonization == She was venerated by Pope Pius XII on 22 February 1955 and beatified on 17 April. She was canonized and declared a saint by Pope John Paul II along with other Martyrs of China on 1 October 2000.<ref name=":1" />
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