St. Stefan Wu the New Martyr was a Chinese, born in Beijing at the Mission on January 28th, 1925, His Manchu surname was Min.

 

St. Stefan Wu the New Martyr was a Chinese, born in Beijing at the Mission on January 28th, 1925, His Manchu surname was Min. He undertook theological training and served as reader in Ss Peter & Paul church in Hong Kong. St. Stefan was musically trained as a choir director. As a priest, he served as the last rector in Harbin at St Alexis church.

During Chinese Cultural Revolution, the soldiers captured him and before his Church, The Communist Revolutionists put a table covered with sharp rubble, and on rubble they have put Archpriest Stefan on his knees. They have dressed him in clown's dressing gown, on his head they put up a cap, filled with metal shavings. His face was smeared with soot. During two days St. Stefan was beaten over the head with a wooden hammer, was beaten with steel sticks on shoulders, they spat on his pectoral cross, and continued to beat him until he was half-dead, he was taken to a prison hospital. There they treated him lightly and later they put him in a prison. On May 17th, 1970 after 3 years of incarceration and much suffering St. Stephen received his crown of martyrdom by a firing squad. The holy remains of this new martyr are now resting in Orthodox cemetery Sankeshu near Harbin. By the intercession of Holy New Martyr St. Stephen Wu, Lord Jesus Christ have mercy and save us ..