On Sunday, 16 October, the Onnuri Unit went to autumn pilgrimage to the Namhansangseong outskirt of Seoul.

14 AFIs joined and had Holy mass there.  After the Eucharist,  walking a path of the cross through the beautiful forest and sharing meal at the

traditional restaurant were the following program. The theme was ‘ecology issue with the Laudato Si. Noella Kim presented her case how has been working in her native home village with 11 old-aged  residents.  Her father and she were awarded by the Archdiocese of Seoul as a good example of  living the value of the Pope’s teaching. One day program was ended at 5 p.m.

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Here is the story of the site for the Pilgrimage.

Namhansanseong Fortress was closely related to the persecution of Catholics as a military point of Hanyang, and there is a tradition that believers were imprisoned in Namhansanseong from the first persecution of Shinhae (1791). did.

Following the persecution of Gihae and Byeongin, about 300 Catholics were martyred by methods such as beheading, teaching, and burial. Unfortunately, only a fraction of those who were martyred are known.

At the time of the Byeongin persecution, an unusual punishment called baekjisa (白紙紙紙) began here, which is a punishment that binds the limbs, sprinkles water on the face, and then covers them with Korean paper over and over again, leading to death from suffocation.

When too many believers were arrested, the punishment devised by the police officers or soldiers who got tired of seeing blood was the punishment devised as an easy way to execute them.

Among the martyrs whose whereabouts have been revealed, there are 36 martyrs including Blessed Thomas Han, the first martyr, Deok-shim Kim Augustino, Peter Kim Yun-sim, and Seong-hee Kim Ambrose, Cha-hee Kim, Kyung-hee Kim, Yun-hee Kim, and Paul Eun Jeong and Peter Jeong from Dannae in Icheon. .