Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate

About this place

The Sancheong community of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary is a women's religious community within the Diocese of Masan. The Catholic directory lists it under the subsidiary name “Sancheong St. Andrew Kim Taegon Community.” Located within Seongsimwon in Sancheong, it is a local religious house in which the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary live the prayer and missionary spirit of their international congregation within the local Church.

The congregation, founded by Blessed Mary of the Passion and belonging to the Franciscan family, emphasizes universal mission, self-offering centered on the Eucharist, and service of the Gospel among different peoples and cultures. The Sancheong community is meaningful as a place where this wider charism takes concrete form in common religious life and prayer within the Diocese of Masan. Public official sources do not sufficiently describe the specific current apostolates of this branch, so no particular medical, welfare, or educational ministry is assigned to it without evidence. Information from the Korean regional headquarters confirms that this community belongs to an international congregation active in Korea since 1958. Rather than overstating the specific work of the Sancheong branch, the key to understanding the place is that it is a local community living the congregation’s universal missionary vocation and Franciscan fraternity within the local Church.