The introduction of the Congregation

1.The introduction of Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs

 Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs is the first Korean  congregation generated spontaneously and established October 30, 1953. The members of the congregation serve the church and society based on the Martyrs' spirituality. First of all, they live a pleasant life for Jesus Christ.

2. The purpose of the establishment of Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs

 Led by the Holy Spirit, the martyrs of this land themselves became "holy living sacrifices"(Rom 12:1) for Jesus Christ who is the source of eternal life and happiness. They did this to imitate Jesus Christ who gave Himself to the Father on the cross in order to save all people.
 
 As the Father joyfully received the Holy Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name(Phil 2:9), we are certain that our proud martyrs also have overflowingly received what they had desired.
 
 In this land that has been blessed by the sacred blood of the martyrs, the Lord has prepared a house for Himself to dwell in and calls us to this house, making us the "heirs of their lifeblood project"(Hom 1970.8.14.) and asking us to follow after Him like His courageous witnesses.
 
 We firmly believe in the help of the Holy Spirit and relying on the same Spirit, we have responded to the call of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In living out the evangelical counsels, rather than following any other way we wish to follow Jesus Christ in the way shown by the martyrs of this land.

3. The emblem of Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korean Martyrs

 The emblem means our missions that prove God, the Holy Trinity, and deliver the Word of God with the light of the Father to everyone in the world, using the Holy Cross as a shield. It symbolizes that the Martyrs' victory protects and supports us. And it also means the hope we will win a victory in God.

The introduction of the Founder

The Life of Fr.  Bang Yu-Ryong Andrew(1900-1986)

 Unlike others of his time, the founder had been raised as a Catholic, attended the seminary, and was ordained as a Catholic priest when he was 30 years old. When he was young, he had been educated as a Confucian scholar by his grandfather who was a famous scholar of that time. During his early seminary years, he had lived a life changing by means of encounter with God, and he wished to dedicate his life as a religious.

 While working as a parish priest, his main interests were to gather and teach other religious candidates. He had visited Benedictine monastic orders and other religious from Europe serving in korea, but he was acutely aware that his vocation was not to foreign order. As a Korean priest who desired the salvation of the entire nation, he realized that he had a special calling to start a Korea religious community that would live out a western ascetic life in an oriental way. With a desire to pioneer a Korean spiritual path, he became the first Korean to found a religious community.

 Fr. Bang established The Clerical Congregation of The Blessed Korean Martyrs in 1953. He made his perpetual profession in the Clerical Congregation of the Blessed Korea Martyrs In 1957, and he had devoted himself to religious life until his death in 1986. He established an ascetical system and appropriate spirituality to Korean, and as a spiritual master, he had spent his life teaching the path to union with God and guiding others. He is known as a Korean spiritual authority who had enculturated suitably Western Christianity to the sprit and culture of the Orient.