About this place
Yangju Martyrs' Shrine is a Catholic martyr shrine of the Diocese of Uijeongbu at 62 Buheung-ro 1399beon-gil in Yangju, near the former Yangju government office. It commemorates five martyrs recorded in the Chimyong Ilgi: John Kim Yun-o and his wife Martha Gwon, Maria Kim, a man known as Mr. Park, and Augustine Hong Seong-won.
Through testimony and historical research, the diocese identified the martyrdom site and formally proclaimed it a shrine in 2016. Today the shrine centers on a new church dedicated in 2025 and offers pilgrim Masses, confession, the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and devotional Masses for the martyrs. It is both a historical place of memory and a living site of prayer, repentance, and pilgrimage.
History & origins
After the Diocese of Uijeongbu was created in 2004, diocesan research into Catholic history in northern Gyeonggi led to the rediscovery of the martyrdom site near the former Yangju government office recorded in the Chimyong Ilgi. Land was acquired on the basis of testimony recalling an old marker for the martyr site, and Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon celebrated the formal proclamation Mass for the shrine on May 28, 2016.
The first Mass at the shrine was celebrated on September 23, 2017. A resident priest, pilgrim house and chapel, Marian garden, and other facilities were subsequently developed. The new church hosted its first Mass at the Easter Vigil on April 19, 2025, and was formally dedicated on September 20 of that year. The modern history of Yangju Shrine thus runs from rediscovery of the martyr site to formal proclamation and the completion of a permanent church.
Korean Catholic Places Encyclopedia
Yangju Shrine: history and architecture
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