Korean Martyrs Blessed Virgin Mary Sisters Religious Community
Religious house
한국 순교 복자 빨마 수녀회
About this place
This place is the “Daejeon community” of the Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs. The Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea records the community in Jeonui-myeon, Sejong Special Self-Governing City, as the Daejeon community belonging to the Diocese of Daejeon. The key to understanding the place is therefore that it is not a parish or a public shrine but a local community of women religious where members of the congregation continue their common life and prayer.
The Palma Sisters form part of the Blessed Korean Martyrs religious family developed by Fr. Andrew Bang Yu-ryong in order to carry the faith of the Korean martyrs into consecrated life. The significance of this community lies in the continuation of that martyr-centered spirituality and tradition of consecration within the Diocese of Daejeon. The current directory clearly confirms the community’s existence and affiliation but does not describe its specific apostolate in detail, so visitors should understand it primarily as a place of religious common life and prayer rather than as an ordinary parish facility.
History & origins
The origins of the Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs lie in the “Palma House of the Blessed Korean Martyrs,” founded in Busan on October 1, 1962. Fr. Andrew Bang Yu-ryong, who had already founded the Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs and the Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs, created this community so that women in a wider range of life circumstances could live the same spiritual tradition. The first community began when two widowed women started religious life in a small house in Cheonghak-dong, Busan.
After moving through Chojang-dong and Sujeong-dong, the community built and settled in a motherhouse at Oryundae in 1973. It subsequently grew by establishing a novitiate and several local communities, and an official introduction to the Blessed Korean Martyrs religious family states that in 1992 it received approval from the Diocese of Busan under the name Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs. This development shows how the small Palma community became an established religious community in the Church.
The present Catholic directory lists two communities within the Diocese of Daejeon: the Daejeon community in Jeonui-myeon, Sejong, and the Jibang-ri community in Jinsan-myeon, Geumsan. The available official sources, however, do not state when the Daejeon community was established or what apostolate it first undertook. Accordingly, this account does not infer a local foundation date but connects the congregation’s verified wider development only with the confirmed present existence of the Daejeon community.
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Daejeon Diocese (Diocese of Daejeon)
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