Columba Kang Wan-suk
Korean martyr, Roman catholic blessed
Who they were
Columba Kang Wan-suk is honoured together with others as The Korean Martyrs. From that page:
The Church in Korea was founded by lay people: around 1780 a scholar, Lee Byeok, read Matteo Ricci's book on the true doctrine of God brought from Beijing, embraced the faith and gathered the first community before any priest arrived. From 1802 the state banned Christianity and ordered Christians killed, and persecution went on until religious freedom came in 1882.
Among the thousands who died, 103 were canonised together, among them the first Korean-born priest, St Andrew Kim Taegon, martyred on 16 September 1846, and the lay catechist St Paul Chong Hasang, who walked to China fifteen times to beg for priests and was martyred on 22 September 1839.
Shared write-up of the group, until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- The Korean Martyrs Saint honoured together
- Wikidata Q77588771 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
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