Tokwon Territorial Abbey
Tokwon Territorial Abbey | |
Basic data | |
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Country | North Korea |
Ecclesiastical province | Immediate |
Apostolic Administrator | Blasio Park OSB |
Dept | Sedis vacancy |
founding | 1940 |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Korean |
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Tokwon Territorial Abbey | |||
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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
- Chrysostomus Schmid OSB Prior 1922 to 1930
- Abbot Bishop Bonifatius Sauer OSB (January 12, 1940 to February 7, 1950, died)
- Timotheus Bitterli OSB (May 9, 1952 to October 4, 1985, retired) ( Apostolic Administrator )
- Placidus Ri OSB , Abbot of Waegwan and Apostolic Administrator of Tokwon (October 4, 1985 to November 21, 2005)
- Simon Ri OSB , Abbot of Waegwan (23 August 2001 to 1 April 2013) and Apostolic Administrator of Tokwon (21 November 2005 to 7 May 2013)
- Blasio Park OSB , Abbot of Waegwan and Apostolic Administrator of Tokwon (since May 7, 2013)
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.
- Abbot Bishop Bonifatius Sauer from Oberufhausen, parish of Eiterfeld
- Brother Basilius Hauser from Polling
- Brother Eugen Ostermeier from Munich
- Brother Eusebius Lohmeier from Mering
- Brother Gottlieb Auer from Lauterhofen
- Brother Gregor Giegerich from Großwallstadt
- Brother Hilarius Hoiß from Unterau, Schlehdorf community
- Brother Ildefons Flötzinger from Taiding, Amerang parish
- Brother Josef Grahamer from Eisenhofen
- Brother Ludwig Fischer from Unterstelzhausen, Kreßberg community
- Brother Markus Metzger from MONTIESHAUSEN , Tutzing community
- Brother Paschalis Fangauer from Egglfing, municipality of Köfering
- Brother Petrus Gernert from Kleinwenkheim
- Brother Solanus Hermann from Thal, City of Vöhringen (Iller)
- Oblate Agneta Chang from Hwanghae-do (Korea)
- Father Anselm Romer from Ingerkingen , Schemmerhofen parish
- Father Benedikt Kim from Kal-kok-ri (Korea)
- Father Bernardus Kim from Samyang-dong (Korea)
- Father Dagobert Enk from Munich
- Father Arnulf Schleicher from Pflaumloch , Riesbürg parish
- Father Lucius Roth from Softness
- Father Gregor Sorger from Spaichingen
- Father Gregor Steger from Tröbes
- Father Kanut Count des Enffans d'Avernas from Schirmdorf, Abstall parish
- Father Kunibert Ott from Edelstetten , Neuburg an der Kammel
- Father Laurentius Lee from Sinam-ri (Korea)
- Father Martinus Kim from Pyongyang (Korea)
- Father Maurus Kim from Hamgyŏng-pukto (Korea)
- Father Rupert Klingseis from Munich
- Rev. Gabriel Ku from Seoul (Korea)
- Rev. Marcus Kim from Onyang (Korea)
- Rev. Matthias Choi from Anbyon (Korea)
- Rev. Petrus Lee from Seoul (Korea)
- Sister Fructuosa Gerstmayer from Weingarten (Württemberg)
- Sister Lucia Park from SoonAhn (Korea)
- Sister M. Eva Schütz from Bernried am Starnberger See
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 ).
Web links
- Biographies of the Martyrs of Tokwon - ( Mission Benedictines )
- "Rise up, Christ, help us!" - About the German martyrs on the Korean peninsula - ( Church in Need , Rudolf Grulich , October 2010)
- Tokwon Abbey picture gallery before and after the destruction - ( Picasa Web Albums )
- Entry on Territorial Abbey of Tŏkwon {Tokugen} on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 26, 2014.
- Entry on Territorial Abbacy of Tŏkwon on gcatholic.org (English)