"The Martyr of Sweat"
From UCA News Online comes a story that the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints has granted a nihil obstat (nothing obstructs) in the process for the canonization of Father Thomas Choe Yang-eop, known as the "Martyr of Sweat" in Korea, for having "walked an average of 2,800 kilometers a year to visit Catholics in remote villages where foreign missioners could not visit and heard 4,000 confessions" and who "died of typhoid in 1861, at the age of 40, after a 12-year itinerant mission."
From UCA News Online comes a story that the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints has granted a nihil obstat (nothing obstructs) in the process for the canonization of Father Thomas Choe Yang-eop, known as the "Martyr of Sweat" in Korea, for having "walked an average of 2,800 kilometers a year to visit Catholics in remote villages where foreign missioners could not visit and heard 4,000 confessions" and who "died of typhoid in 1861, at the age of 40, after a 12-year itinerant mission."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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