Korean Martyrs Benedictine Sisters

About this place

The community of the Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs at 30 Jungangdong-ro in Jincheon-eup is identified in the Korean Catholic Directory as the “Suwon Province: Cheongju Community.” The same address is also that of Jincheon Parish, and the parish directory lists the Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs as the religious congregation serving the parish. This place should therefore be understood not as the congregation’s motherhouse, but as a local religious community connected with Jincheon Parish.

The Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs is a congregation founded by Koreans to continue the faith and spirituality of the Korean martyrs. Official congregational material describes its vocation as proclaiming the Gospel of Christ in a spirit of fraternal love and martyrdom. The specific apostolates of the Cheongju community cannot be expanded beyond what the sources verify, but its present identity as a religious community located at Jincheon Parish itself illustrates one form in which religious life and parish pastoral ministry meet in a local Catholic community.