They died well over a century ago, but the 124 Korean Catholic martyrs who will be honored by Pope Francis this week still have a hold over many of their descendants — even some who learned of ...

The martyrs commemorated on Sept. 20 include Korea’s first priest, St. Andrew Kim Taegon, and lay Catholic leader St. Paul Chong Hasang. Kim was born in 1821 into an aristocratic Korean family ...

The martyrs include three French missionaries and a Korean priest executed for violating a ban on Christianity ...

The feast of the Korean martyrs, celebrated by the Catholic Church on Sept. 20, remembers 103 men, women, and children who died for their faith in the first decades of Korean Christianity.

Rome Newsroom, Sep 1, 2021 / 14:00 pm. The relics of three of Korea’s oldest Catholic martyrs have been identified with DNA testing, the Diocese of Jeonju announced on Wednesday.

They died well over a century ago, but the 124 Korean Catholic martyrs who will be honored by Pope Francis this week still have a hold over many of their descendants — even some who learned of ...

The remains of the first Korean Catholic martyrs have been recovered, church officials said Wednesday, 230 years after they were executed and seven years since they were beatified.

He beatified 124 Korean martyrs on Saturday. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. ... "I do not know much about Catholics and South Korea's Catholic history, ...

Hampton resident Hannah McKinney has been a member of the same Catholic church in the Wythe section of the city for most of her life.The church opened its doors in 1948, the year after she was ...

SEOUL, South Korea | Pope Francis beatified 124 Korean martyrs on Saturday, telling hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for his open-air Mass that their ancestors' willingness to die ...

Pope Francis led a ceremony before a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square to beatify 124 Korean martyrs, a rite that highlighted the special history of a church referred to ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They died well over a century ago, but the 124 Korean Catholic martyrs who will be honored by Pope Francis this week still have a hold over many of their descendants ...