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Augustine Chŏng Yakjong (1760-1801), the husband of St. Cecilia Yu So-sa and father of Sts. Paul Chong Ha-sang and Elizabeth Chong Chong-hye; Columba Kang Wan-suk (1761-1801), known as the "catechist of the Korean Martyrs"; Maria Yi Seong-rye (1801-1840) the wife of St. Francis Choe Kyeong-hwan. Barbara Sim-gi, an 18 year old virgin and martyr
Francis Yun Ji-heon was killed and dismembered. He was the brother of Paul Yun Ji-chung, who, with James Kwon Sang-yeon, was executed in 1791 for destroying mortuary tablets used in traditional Korean funeral rites and holding a Catholic service instead.
Chŏng Yakjong (1760 – April 8, 1801), also known as Augustine Chong, was a Korean Catholic martyr who contributed greatly to the spread of Catholicism in Korea.He was the older brother of Chŏng Yagyong and the father of Paul Chong Hasang.
Despite a century-long persecution that produced thousands of martyrs – 103 of whom were canonized by Pope John Paul II in May 1984, including the first Korean priest, St. Andrew Taegon Kim, who was ordained in 1845 and martyred in 1846 – the Church in Korea expanded. The Apostolic Vicariate of Korea was formed in 1831, and after the ...
Paul Chong Hasang (1794 or 1795–September 22, 1839) was a Korean Catholic lay missionary known as one of the Korean Martyrs. His feast day is September 20, [ 1 ] and he is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20.
Pope Francis also made a papal visit to South Korea in 2014 for the beatification of the 124 Korean martyrs and for the sixth Asian Youth Day. [6] Then Korean President Kim Dae-jung visited the Vatican in 2000, becoming the first Korean head of state to do so. He reportedly told John Paul "you saved my life, I am grateful."
Pope Francis' visit to Southeast Asia, the longest trip in his papacy, is the latest in decades of regular papal visits to the Asia-Pacific region. Papal travel is a thing of the modern era ...
She was executed during "the infamous 1839–1840 Gihae Persecution", [4] with a group of ten prisoners, including St. Mary Yi Seong-rye. Nine of the Danggogae martyrs, including St. Agatha, were canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984, when he canonized 103 martyrs and French missionaries killed during the waves of persecutions in Korea.