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 ...

An estimated 10,000 Korean Catholics were killed for their faith in bouts of persecution that lasted about 100 years ...

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 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.

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

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, ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea - Hundreds of ... Pope beatifies Korean martyrs. Staff Writer. ... a Catholic who was trying to get a glimpse of the pope just outside the police barricade.

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 ...

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.

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 ...