Way of the
Martyrs
They could have walked away.They didn't.Come and find out what they knew.
A post-WYD pilgrimage into the story of Korea's martyrs.
They could have walked away.They didn't.Come and find out what they knew.
A post-WYD pilgrimage into the story of Korea's martyrs.
Korea's first native priest. Six months ordained. Beheaded on a sandbank in the Han River, in 1846.
Into a Catholic family in a kingdom that executed Catholics. His great-grandfather and his father were both martyred.
One of the first three Korean seminarians. He travelled overland and by sea to Macau to study, because there was nowhere in Korea to do it.
The first Korean Catholic priest. He sailed home aboard the Raphael to a country where his priesthood was a capital offence.
His work was charting sea routes so that more missionaries could enter. He was arrested doing it.
Beheaded on the Han River sandbank used for executing the most serious criminals. He was twenty-five, and had been a priest for six months.
John Paul II declared him a saint among the 103 Korean Martyrs — the first canonization held outside Rome in modern times.
Take courage! I have overcome the world. — John 16:33Theme of World Youth Day 2027
World Youth Day returns to Asia after thirty-two years. St Andrew Kim Taegon is one of its five patron saints, alongside John Paul II, Carlo Acutis, Josephine Bakhita and Frances Xavier Cabrini.
Jesus Youth Canada
Pilgrim
After World Youth Day, we'll leave Seoul and journey through some of the places where that story began - from the birthplace of St. Andrew Kim to the shrines and communities shaped by Korea's martyrs.
Final route and pilgrimage details coming soon.3 August 2027 · Seoul, Republic of Korea
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