Charles Yi Gyeong-do
Korean martyr, catholic blessed
Feast: 31 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Charles Yi Gyeong-do 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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The cause
Charles Yi Gyeong-do has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Korean Church: the cause of Charles Yi Gyeong-do.
Connected on this site
- The Korean Martyrs Saint honoured together
- Santi, beati e testimoni - BeatiMartiri Coreani (Paolo Yun Ji-chung e 123 compagni) — Named on the roll of the 124 Korean martyrs beatified at Seoul on 16 August 2014 as Carlo Yi Gyeong-do, 29 January.
- Wikidata Q97166165 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.