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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Andrew Kim & Companions
DESCRIPTION:THE KOREAN MARTYRS \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nChristianity came late to Korea\, for it was the policy of that country’s \nrulers to keep it isolated from foreign influence. Not until the late eighteenth \ncentury\, more than two hundred years after Francis Xavier had reached Japan\, \ndid the Church begin very slowly to take root. The earliest missionaries were lay \npeople who had been converted outside their country. Pietro Yi was baptized at \nPechino in 1784: he was the first Korean to be received into the church\, but he \nwas also the first to apostatize\, when persecution broke out in 1791. \nThrough the last years of the eighteenth century persecution was sporadic \nand localized\, but in 1801 it was extended to the whole of the country. One \nChinese priest\, who had succeeded in entering Korea\, offered himself for \nmartyrdom in the hope that his death would bring the sufferings of his fellow \nChristians to an end. He was beheaded on May 31st 1801\, and the persecution \nwent on. \nYet these early martyrs were not among those canonized by Pope John \nPaul II in the cathedral of Seoul\, where the relics of so many of them lie\, on May \n6th 1984. Of the many thousand – perhaps more than 8\,000 not counting those \nwho died of cold or starvation as they fled the tortures of the persecutors – 103 \nwere chosen by name as representatives of the rest. They were selected from \nthose who died in the persecutions which began in 1839 lasted until 1846\, and \nthose which lasted from 1861 to the beginning of 1866. \nBy the time of the renewed persecution – brought about both in 1839 and \n1861 by the return to power of the conservative faction of the Korean ruling class \n– there was a small number of missionaries in the country\, two French priests \nand a bishop\, all three died by beheading on September 21st 1839. On September \n16th 1846 there died Andrew Kim\, the first and at that time only\, Korean-born- \npriest. Two more bishops\, and a number of other French missionaries died in \nthe later persecution. \nThese were the clergy\, but by far the greatest number of those named as \nsaints by the pope near the spot where so many of them had died by beheading \nor strangulation\, were ordinary lay people. Some of them were of high rank\, but \nmost were ordinary men and women\, often linked by family ties as well as by the \nbonds of faith\, mothers and their children\, wives and their husbands. For \nseveral their crime was that they had worked as catechist in spreading the faith \nwhich\, until 1881\, was referred to in official documents as “the perverse \ndoctrine”. \nThe persecution\, which lasted until 1866\, was the last: religious liberty \nwas conceded in 1886\, and today the Church flourishes. Though the 103 whose \nsanctity was formally recognized were canonized together\, they had been \nbeatified in two groups: those of the earlier persecution by Pius XI in July 1925\, \nthose of the later one by Paul VI in October 1968
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