Saint Andrew Kim Taegon/Footprints

Footprints for Saint Andrew Kim Taegon are tour-depth life-trace places — walkable stops, shrines, and mission sites for pilgrimage maps. They are not a second copy of the five infobox significant locations, and not every church dedicated to this person. Full catalog: Footprints · trails: Tour Regional Trails · nearby: NearMe. This tour: 6 stop(s) stored in Cargo VisitAccess: Public = open to pilgrims · Limited = hours/appointment or exterior · Private / Unknown = do not treat as a tourist stop. Prefer a real source URL before marking Public. Editors: Add or edit stops with form · Form help · Template fields Please keep life-trace scope (Footprints / lab SCOPE). A later fact-pack re-publish may overwrite form edits unless the YAML pack is updated too.

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Footprints

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• Saenamteo Martyrs’ Shrine – beheading site of Andrew Kim (Martyrdom) [Public] Shrine – Saenamteo, Ichon-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Year: 1846
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Seoul
  • Riverside execution ground where the first Korean priest was beheaded 16 Sep 1846. Public martyrs’ shrine and memorial church — primary Seoul pin of the Korean Martyrs trail.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kim_Taegon; https://wydseoul.org/en/introduction/kimtaegon

• Jeoldusan Martyrs’ Shrine – Korean Martyrs museum & memorial (Legacy of the Korean Martyrs) [Public] Shrine – 6 Tojeong-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Year: 1866
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Seoul
  • Major public museum-shrine on the Han River cliff of later persecutions; essential context stop for Andrew Kim and the 103 Korean Martyrs canonized in Seoul.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeoldusan_Martyrs%27_Shrine; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Martyrs

• Myeongdong Cathedral (Seoul) – archdiocesan mother church (Legacy) [Public] Church – 74 Myeongdong-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Year: 1898
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Seoul
  • Public Gothic cathedral of Seoul — national Catholic hub where Korean Martyrs devotion and modern pilgrimage itineraries meet (including JPII 1984 canonization visit memory).
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myeongdong_Cathedral

• Solmoe Shrine – birthplace of Andrew Kim Taegon (Childhood) [Public] Shrine – Solmoe, Dangjin, South Chungcheong, South Korea, Dangjin, South Chungcheong, South Korea
  • Year: 1821
  • Diocese: Diocese of Daejeon
  • Birthplace shrine of Andrew Kim (21 Aug 1821) in the Solmoe Catholic village. Public rural pilgrimage campus southwest of Seoul.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kim_Taegon; https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-08/korea-andrew-kim-first-priest-birth-bicentenary-martyr.html

• Macau – seminary formation association (before return to Korea) (Seminary formation) [Public] Outdoor – Historic seminary / St. Joseph’s landscape, Macau, Macau, Macau, China
  • Year: 1842
  • Diocese: Diocese of Macau
  • Portuguese Macau landscape of Korean seminarian formation in exile before ordination and the dangerous return mission. Public historic Catholic district.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kim_Taegon

• Yeouido (Seoul) – 1984 canonization Mass landscape (JPII) (Legacy) [Public] Outdoor – Yeouido Park area, Seoul, South Korea, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Year: 1984
  • Diocese: Archdiocese of Seoul
  • Landscape of John Paul II’s 1984 open-air Mass and canonization of the 103 Korean Martyrs including Andrew Kim. Public park — shared pin with the JPII world tour.
  • Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pastoral_visits_of_Pope_John_Paul_II; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Martyrs