Juye Incident

Contemporary German depiction of the Juye Incident.
Bloodstained undershirt of Franz Xaver Nies.
Roadside marker at the site of the incident.

The Juye Incident (Chinese: or ; pinyin: Cáozhōu Jiào'àn or Jùyě Jiào'àn, German: Juye Vorfall) refers to the killing of two German Catholic missionaries, Richard Henle and Franz Xaver Nies, of the Society of the Divine Word, in Juye County Shandong Province, China in the night of 1–2 November 1897 (All Saints' Day to All Souls' Day).[1] The target of the attack, Georg Maria Stenz, survived unharmed.

  1. ^ Esherick 1987, p. 123