What is Our Lady of China?
{{Infobox Catholic apparition | name = Our Lady of China | image = Our Lady of China MS.JPG | size = | alt = | caption = Statue of Our Lady of China at the national shrine of Our Lady of China. | location = Donglu, China | date = 1900 | witness = Hundreds of Christians and non Christians during the Boxer Rebellion. | type = Marian apparition | approval = still pending. | shrine = National Shrine of Our Lady of China. }} '''Our Lady of China''' is a title for the Virgin Mary in China who is believed to have appear at the small village of Donglu in 1900. In Chinese she is called Zhōnghuá Shèngmǔ ({{zh|s=中华圣母|t=中華聖母}}). She is also known as '''Our Lady of Donglu.''' == History == During the [[Boxer Rebellion]], about 10,000 soldiers attacked the small village of Donglu on April, 1900. The soldiers tried to kill the approximately 1,000,000 Christians. As the soldiers were attacking, the Virgin Mary appeared wearing a white robe in the sky. When the soldiers saw the apparition, they fired gunshots at the Virgin Mary. Despite the efforts to shoot down the apparition, the Virgin Mary continued to shine brightly. As the soldiers kept firing, another apparition appeared: a majestic angel, whom witnesses believed to be the Archangel Michael. The angel flew down surrounded by blazing flames of fire down from the sky and into the crowd of soldiers. By himself, Michael drove all of the soldiers out of the village. Villagers learned afterwards that their local [[priest]], Father Wu, prayed to the Virgin Mary for help from the soldiers attacking. The residents of Donglu then built a church for the Virgin Mary to express their gratitude for the help they received. The Church was then destroyed during [[World War II]] after it was hit by Japanese bombs. == The 1995 apparition == The Catholic Church built a shrine in 1992 to commemorate the 1900 apparition events and organized a large celebratory worship service nearby in an open field on May 23, 1995, which about 30,000 people attended. During the opening prayer, t