Tokwon Territorial Abbey

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Tokwon Territorial Abbey
Tokwon Territorial Abbey map
Basic data
Country North Korea
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Apostolic Administrator Blasio Park OSB
Dept Sedis vacancy
founding 1940
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Korean
Tokwon Territorial Abbey (North Korea)
Tokwon Territorial Abbey
Tokwon Territorial Abbey
Tokwon Territorial Abbey in North Korea
Tokwon Territorial Abbey
Korean alphabet : 천주교 덕원 자치 수도원 구
Hanja : 天主 敎 德 源 自治 修道院 區
Revised Romanization : Cheonjugyo Deog-wonjachisudowongu
McCune-Reischauer : -

Coordinates: 39 ° 11 ′ 38.4 "  N , 127 ° 22 ′ 25.8"  E

The Territorial Abbey Tokwon also Tokugen ( Latin Abbatia territorialis Tokvonensis ) is a Roman Catholic territorial abbey of the Benedictines in North Korea near the port city of Wŏnsan , with its seat in Tokwon .

history

In 1927, the St. Benedict Abbey, founded in Seoul in 1909, was relocated to Tokwon in northern Korea. In addition to the actual monastery complex, a seminary , a hospital , further training facilities, a printing shop and other commercial operations are being built. Pope Pius XII founded on January 12, 1940 the territorial abbey Tokwon (Japanese and in the curial style Tokugen) from territorial assignments of the Apostolic Vicariate Wonsan . The end of the Second World War brought the flourishing mission station to an abrupt end. On the night of May 9-10, 1949, the Tokwon Monastery was surrounded and evacuated by the communist secret police. On July 12, 1950, shortly after the death of Abbot Bishop Bonifatius Sauer , the abbey was given its current name. Since the death of Abbot Bishop Boniface Sauer and the evacuation of the abbey, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has appointed Benedictines as apostolic administrators of the territorial abbey. Since 2005 this has been the ruling abbot of Waegwan Abbey .

Abbots and superiors of Tokwon

Martyrs of Tokwon

After the withdrawal of the Red Army at the end of 1948, the Communist People's Government of Korea launched a targeted fight against the Christian religion. The Benedictines of Tokwon Abbey and the Benedictine Sisters of Wŏnsan Priory were also arrested. They began to suffer severe suffering in prisons and labor camps, 36 of which did not survive. They were either murdered or died in the camp between 1949 and 1952. On May 10, 2007, the beatification of these 36 martyrs began.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sermon on the 60th anniversary of the death of Abbot Bishop Bonifaz Sauer OSB on February 7, 2010 in the Fulda Cathedral ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).

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