Jul. 9 Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, Opt. Mem.

Saint Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 companions in 1815. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were preparing to flay him alive: “Every piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian.”