Saint Peter Nam Kyŏng-mun

Peter Nam Kyŏng-mun (Korean: 남경문 베드로; born 1796 in Seoul, died September 20, 1846, in the same city) was a Korean saint of the Catholic Church and a martyr. In his youth, he was a soldier, later working as a salt clam merchant. He served as a catechist. When persecutions of Catholics broke out in Korea, he was arrested. He was imprisoned, where unsuccessful attempts were made to force him to renounce his faith. He was executed by strangulation on September 20, 1846. He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on July 5, 1925, and canonized by Pope John Paul II on May 6, 1984, in Seoul, as one of the 103 Korean martyrs. He is commemorated among a group of seven Catholic martyrs executed in a Seoul prison on the same day (Lawrence Han I-hyŏng, Susanna U Sur-im, Joseph Im Ch’i-p’ek, Teresa Kim Im-i, Agatha Yi Kan-nan, and Catherine Chŏng Ch’ŏr-yŏm).