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Following Vatican’s approval, the statue of the patron saint of Korea was installed at the Saint Peter’s Basilica on September 16, the anniversary of his beheading by the Korean Joseon Dynasty. Canonized in 1984, Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn is known as the first native Korean priest and also as their…
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 11, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
The Vatican will dedicate a new statue of the patron saint of Korea, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, in St. Peter’s Basilica this Saturday.
Born in 1821, Tae-gŏn was the first native Korean priest and one of the country’s earliest martyrs.
The statue of the Korean martyr was proposed by Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, a Korean prelate and prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy, and approved by Pope Francis, according to the Holy See’s news arm, Vatican News.
The pope has pointed to Tae-gŏn’s missionary zeal as a model for all Christians to follow.
“The Christian is by nature a witness of Jesus,” Vatican News reported Francis saying in a May 24 homily. “St. Andrew Kim and the other Korean faithful have demonstrated that the testimony of the Gosp