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Seongmo Seongsim-ui Jip, the House of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is a retreat house of the Catholic Diocese of Daejeon. The Catholic Church Directory in Korea lists the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Mirinae as the religious institute responsible for it. Connected with the Surichigol Marian Shrine, the house was created as a place where individuals and groups can step away from daily busyness for prayer, meditation, and retreat. It provides a church, a chapel, spaces for lectures and meetings, and lodging so that pilgrims can remain on site for an extended period of spiritual recollection.
Its significance goes beyond that of a lodging facility for retreats. Surichigol is described as a former Catholic village from the period of persecution and as a place connected with the history of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Korean Catholic Church. The retreat house serves as a base from which visitors can encounter that memory of faith and reflect on their own spiritual life in silence and prayer. The house and the surrounding shrine can therefore be understood together as one spiritual pilgrimage setting.
History & origins
Surichigol, where the House of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is located, is connected with a Catholic village in which believers hid and continued their life of faith during the period of persecution. In 1846, Bishop Jean-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Ferréol and Fr. Antoine Daveluy are recorded as having dedicated the persecuted Church in Joseon to the Blessed Virgin Mary here and organized a Korean branch of the Sodality of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. For this reason, Surichigol is remembered as an important place in the history of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Korean Church.
Beginning in 2017, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Mirinae undertook work to preserve this heritage and improve the setting for pilgrims. Walking paths, parking areas, and places for rest were developed, and a Eucharistic adoration chapel was blessed in December 2018. These improvements formed part of an effort to connect the memory of the old Catholic village with contemporary pilgrimage and prayer.
Within that development, the House of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was established and blessed on June 24, 2019, in a ceremony presided over by Bishop Lazzaro You Heung-sik, then Bishop of Daejeon. An enlarged existing Building A and a newly constructed Building B provided a church, chapel, lecture rooms, meeting rooms, and lodging for individual and group retreats. The creation of the retreat house can thus be seen as a stage in which the historical memory of faith at Surichigol was extended into modern retreat and pilgrimage ministry.
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