About this place
Sabong Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of the Diocese of Masan serving the Sabong-myeon area of Jinju under the pastoral care of Munsan Parish. The current Catholic directory lists Sabong as a mission station of the diocese, while the martyr-shrine information of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea notes that Sabong Mission Station stands in front of the cemetery of Blessed Antonio Jeong Chan-mun and is under Munsan Parish.
The mission station is distinctive because its ordinary rural parish life is shared with a place of martyr veneration. Nearby is the tomb of Blessed Antonio Jeong Chan-mun, who remained faithful during the Byeongin Persecution and died as a martyr. The prayer and community life of local Catholics is therefore naturally connected with the memory of martyrdom. Sabong is both a place that sustains Catholic life at a distance from the parish church and a place where local believers and pilgrims can encounter the heritage of Korean Catholic martyrdom in the same setting.
History & origins
The exact original foundation date of Sabong Mission Station cannot be established from the public sources currently available. The Catholic Encyclopedia of Korea, however, lists Sabong among the mission stations under Munsan Parish, confirming that the community had long been connected with Munsan within the modern parish structure. The Catholic memory of the area has also been closely linked with the tomb of Blessed Antonio Jeong Chan-mun.
As Munsan Parish preserved and promoted devotion to the martyr’s grave, it also renewed the physical space of Sabong Mission Station. Catholic shrine information records that, to commemorate the centenary of Munsan Parish, a new mission chapel was built and blessed in 2005 at the site of the martyr’s tomb. This made the connection between the mission station used by local Catholics and the place of prayer visited by pilgrims more visible within a single setting.
Sabong remains under the pastoral care of Munsan Parish, and its location in front of the martyr’s cemetery continues to define the place. The most cautious history of the mission station therefore focuses not on an unverified early foundation date but on its long-standing place within Munsan Parish, the construction of the new mission chapel in 2005, and its continuing integration with the veneration of Blessed Antonio Jeong Chan-mun.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2005
- Total floor area: 197㎡
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