Korean Martyrs Blessed Virgin Mary Sisters Religious Community
Religious house
한국 순교 복자 빨마 수녀회
About this place
This place is the “Jibang-ri community” of the Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs. The Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea clearly identifies the community in Jinsan-myeon, Geumsan-gun, as the Jibang-ri community within the Diocese of Daejeon. It is not a parish or an ordinary chapel but a local community of women religious, and the starting point for understanding it is its place within the spiritual family founded to carry the faith of the Korean martyrs into consecrated life.
The Palma Sisters developed within the religious family founded by Fr. Andrew Bang Yu-ryong and from the beginning joined the spirituality of the Korean martyrs with a life of consecration. The public directory does not describe the precise current apostolate of the Jibang-ri community in detail, so that should not be assumed. What can be confirmed is that this is a religious community in the Geumsan area of the Diocese of Daejeon where the sisters continue common life and prayer and live the congregation’s spirituality centered on the Korean martyrs within the local Church.
History & origins
The roots of the Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs lie in the “Palma House of the Blessed Korean Martyrs,” which Fr. Andrew Bang Yu-ryong began in Busan on October 1, 1962. Having already founded the Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs and the Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs, Fr. Bang established another community so that women in a wider range of life circumstances could follow the same spirituality in consecrated life. The first community began in a small rented house in Cheonghak-dong, Busan, with two widowed women.
After moving through several residences, the community built and settled in a motherhouse at Oryundae in Busan in 1973 and later expanded with a novitiate and local communities. An official introduction to the broader Blessed Korean Martyrs religious family explains that, after the Palma community was founded in 1962, it received approval from the Diocese of Busan in 1992 under the name Sisters of the Palma Blessed Korean Martyrs.
Today, the Catholic directory lists both the Daejeon community in Jeonui-myeon, Sejong, and the Jibang-ri community in Jinsan-myeon, Geumsan, within the Diocese of Daejeon. Their presence reflects the expansion of the community beyond its origins in Busan. The available official and church sources do not give the date or early circumstances of the Jibang-ri community itself, so those details have not been inferred; only its present existence as a recognized community is stated.
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