Francesco Fogolla (4 October 1839 – 9 July 1900), known in Chinese as Fu Zhujiao, was an Italian missionary prelate belonging to the Order of Friars Minor.

He was born Francesco Antonio Domenico Fogolla to parents Gioacchino and Elisabetta Ferrari on 4 October 1839 in the Tuscan town of Mulazzo.

On 1 November 1856, Fogolla was admitted into the Order of Friars Minor at the Abbey of St Maria del Monte.

Over the seven years following this arrest, he was assigned to various missions in Shanxi, including Pingyao, where he developed exception skill with the Chinese language.

[3] In 1879, with financial support from both the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the laity from within his Vicariate, he began constructing a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart in Changzhi.

[2] In accordance with the Boxer Rebellion, Yuxian, the provincial governor of Shanxi province, implemented harsh legislation aimed at the detriment of foreigners, Catholics, Protestants, and the Orthodox.

Manini, wrote that Yuxian was, "a man of austere customs... a fanatic worshipper of idols, in honor of whom he fasted for long times, enlivened by a ferocious hatred of Christians and Europeans, by brutal cruelty.

Three days later, during the night of 5 July 1900, an army of Boxers arrived at the Taiyuan Mission and took away Bishops Francesco Fogolla and Gregorio Grassi, as well as all of the friars, seminarians, and servants.

By custom, Fogolla's head was severed from his corpse so that it could be put on display in a small cage at the city entrance.

[9] The cause for their canonization was opened on 25 February 1949,[9] and they were declared saints on 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II.