About this place
Hagae Outstation is a long-standing Catholic outstation in the Boeun area of the Diocese of Cheongju and is currently listed in the diocesan outstation directory at Jang-an-ro, Jangan-myeon, Boeun County. The Catholic Encyclopedia of Korea records that the Hagae community developed within the history of Catholicism in Boeun and came under the newly established Boeun Parish in 1955. It is therefore more than a small chapel: it is a place that reflects the way Catholic life took root in the rural villages of the Boeun region.
An outstation provides a center of faith where Catholics living far from the parish church can maintain community, liturgical life, and prayer. Hagae has continued in this role for Catholics of the Jangan-myeon area while remaining connected with Boeun Parish. To understand the place today, the continuity of the community from the colonial period into the history of Boeun Parish is more important than the size of the building itself.
History & origins
Catholic life in the Boeun area, weakened during the persecutions, began to form again in the late nineteenth century. The Catholic Encyclopedia of Korea explains that around 1897–1898 Fr. Bouillon of Janghowon Parish visited Catholic potters in the Boeun region and identified communities such as Seonnyeosil, Gaseup, and Hwangtomal. Catholic life continued around a number of rural outstations, and the Hagae community developed within this broader revival.
The Hagae outstation is recorded as having been established in February 1939, together with Songjuk Outstation, under the then Cheongju Parish. In 1948 the Boeun area was again placed under Okcheon Parish, leaving the local outstations within a very large parish territory. Pastoral distance and the growth of the local Catholic population increased the need for a separate parish centered on Boeun.
On October 1, 1955, Boeun Parish was separated from Okcheon Parish, and both Songjuk and Hagae outstations were transferred to the new parish. This gave the Hagae community a stable place within the pastoral structure of the local Church. Its continued listing in the present Diocese of Cheongju directory shows that the Catholic community formed in the colonial period endured through later changes in parish jurisdiction and has remained part of the Church in the Boeun region.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 120㎡
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