Order of the Eternal Help of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Religious house
영원한 도움의 성모 수도회
About this place
The Suwon branch of the Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a religious community located at the Suji Marian Education Center in Yongin. The Catholic directory identifies this address as the congregation's Suwon branch, while the education center operated by the sisters serves lay Catholics through faith formation, devotional practice, and retreats.
The Suji Marian Education Center offers programs related to the liturgical seasons as well as guided and self-directed retreats, helping participants renew their faith through the Word and prayer. The branch is therefore not only a residence for a religious community but also a point of encounter between the congregation's spirituality and the local Church through retreat and education.
To understand this site, it is useful to see together its two functions as a religious community and as an education center. It is a place where sisters live in community and where lay faithful come for retreats and formation. The Suji branch therefore joins the congregation’s internal religious life with its outward apostolate through prayer and education.
History & origins
The Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help were founded in Pyongyang in 1932. Over time, the congregation developed a range of apostolates in Scripture, education, social service, and mission, and its official history records the development of the Suji site as an important milestone in its work of formation and retreat.
The Suji Marian Education Center was blessed on August 19, 1991. This record provides a clear historical point for the site where the Suwon branch is now located and shows the congregation's intention to develop the place for lay formation, prayer, and retreat.
Today the congregation operates the Suji Marian Education Center as a retreat and training center. The path from the 1991 blessing to the present range of retreat and educational programs shows how the site developed beyond being simply a branch residence and became an apostolic place for the spiritual formation of the faithful.
The blessing date of the education center should not, however, be treated automatically as the administrative founding date of the present Suwon branch. Public sources separately confirm the establishment of the center and the fact that the current branch is located there, but they do not give a distinct canonical or administrative date for the branch itself. The history is therefore best anchored in the verified 1991 blessing of the center and described thereafter as the continuing coexistence of the congregation’s retreat, educational, and community life on the same site.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 5 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1991
- Total floor area: 5,116㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Suwon Diocese (Diocese of Suwon)
Official website: http://www.casuwon.or.kr
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