September 20: STS. ANDREW KIM & PAUL CHONG: Heroes of the Catholic Church in Korea
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September 20: STS. ANDREW KIM & PAUL CHONG: Heroes of the Catholic Church in Korea

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 20, 20267 min
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St. Andrew Kim, Korea's first native priest, was beheaded at 25 — two years after a layman's secret mission made his ordination possible. Paul Chong risked his life smuggling pleas to Church leaders in Beijing for priests to be sent to Korea's outlawed, hidden Catholics. His persistence led to Andrew Kim's ordination in 1844 as Korea's first native priest — before both men were martyred for the faith they'd given everything to serve. "It is for Him that I die. My immortal life is on the point of beginning." Paul and Andrew's challenge doesn't have to end when...

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Welcome back to the Catholic Sprouts podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 20th, so join us for St. Andrew Kim and Paul Chong, heroes of the Catholic Church in Korea. Paul slipped into the garb of a servant and joined a caravan bound for Beijing, hundreds

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of miles down the road. If anyone discovered why he was really making this dangerous journey, why he made it so many times year after year, it would cost him his life. But Paul wasn't smuggling goods.

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He was carrying something far more precious, a desperate plea on behalf of every hidden persecuted Catholic in Korea, a desperate plea for a priest who could bring them the sacraments. Welcome back Sprouts.

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