Saint Andrew Kim Taegon
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- Also known as
- Andrew Kim
- Memorial
- 20 September
- Profile
- Korean nobility; his parents were converts, his father a martyr.
Andrew was baptized at age 15, then travelled 1,300 miles to the nearest seminary in Macao.
He became Korea's first native priest, and the first priest to die for the faith in Korea.
Leader of the Martyrs of Korea.
- Born
- Korean
- Died
- tortured and beheaded in 1846 at Seoul, Korea
- Name Meaning
- strong, manly (Andrew)
- Beatified
- 1925
- Canonized
- 6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II
- Patronage
- Korean clergy
- Prayers
- O God, You have created all nations and You are their salvation.
In the land of Korea Your call to Catholic faith formed a people of adoption, whose growth You nurtured by the blood of Andrew, Paul and their companions.
Through their martyrdom and their intercession grant us strength that we too may remain faithful to your commandments even until death.
Amen.
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- Readings
- The Korean Church is unique because it was founded entirely by laypeople.
This fledgling Church, so young and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of fierce persecution.
Thus, in less than a century, it could boast of 10,000 martyrs.
The death of these many martyrs became the leaven of the Church and led to today's splendid flowering of the Church in Korea.
Even today their undying spirit sustains the Christians of the Church of Silence in the north of this tragically divided land.
Pope John Paul II at the canonization of Andrew in 1984
