House of Retreat for the Martyrs of Ilmanwi
Retreat center
일만위 순교자 피정의 집
About this place
The Retreat House of the Ten Thousand Martyrs is a retreat and prayer house of the Diocese of Incheon in Naega-myeon, Ganghwa County, located on the same grounds as the Memorial Garden of the Ten Thousand Martyrs. It is registered in the Catholic Church Directory in Korea as a diocesan retreat facility, showing that it adds a place for extended prayer and spiritual retreat to a pilgrimage site centered on the commemoration of the martyrs.
Its significance lies not simply in providing accommodation but in offering a setting for retreat centered on the faith of the martyrs. While the memorial garden at the same site remembers both known and unnamed martyrs, the retreat house allows that memory to continue into personal and communal prayer and reflection. Visitors can therefore experience pilgrimage to the shrine and a period of retreat as parts of a single spiritual journey, carrying the memorial garden’s devotion to the martyrs into a more sustained period of prayer.
History & origins
The Retreat House of the Ten Thousand Martyrs is a relatively new diocesan retreat facility established on the same site in Naega-myeon, Ganghwa County, as the existing Memorial Garden of the Ten Thousand Martyrs. The Catholic Church Directory in Korea records its establishment date as January 15, 2024, and classifies it as a retreat and prayer house of the Diocese of Incheon.
The site was already known as a memorial garden dedicated to the many martyrs of the Korean Church, including those whose names were not preserved. Establishing the retreat house added a pastoral base where pilgrims could move beyond a brief visit and spend a longer period in prayer and reflection.
The history of the retreat house is therefore best understood not as the long chronology of a separate older institution, but as a recent extension of the memorial garden’s spirituality of remembering the martyrs into retreat ministry. Since its formal establishment in 2024, it has served as a place that links the spiritual themes of the shrine with prayer that involves staying on the site for a period of time.
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Official website: http://www.caincheon.or.kr
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