September 19th

Today, the Church commemorates Saints Andrew Kin Tae-gon, Paul Chong Ha-sang,, and their companions – the 103 martyrs of Korea, martyred between 1839 and 1867,

“O God, who have been pleased to increase your adopted children in all the world, and who made the blood of the martyrs Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon and his companions a most fruitful seed of Christians, grant that we may be defended by their help and profit always from their example.”