2026 · FOR PILGRIMS TO WYD SEOUL 2027
The House at Majae
One Family and the Church Korea Built from Books, 1784–1886
Tae Ho Guak
No missionary founded the Catholic Church in Korea. Scholars read books smuggled from Beijing, baptised one another, and kept the faith alive through a century of persecution. This short history follows one family from the village of Majae on the Han River through those hundred years.
The six-year-old boy in the prologue grew up to walk to Beijing nine times to ask for priests: St Paul Chong Hasang, one of the Korean Martyrs with St Andrew Kim Taegon, patron saint of World Youth Day Seoul 2027.
DETAILS
Book details
- FORMAT
- Paperback, 5 × 8 in
- PAGES
- 184
- ISBN
- 979-11-221695-3-9
- PUBLISHED
- 15 Oct 2026
- LIST PRICE
- US $14.99
- KINDLE
- US $9.99
CONTENTS
Thirty-one chapters in five parts
- PROLOGUEA Load of Pine Branches
- PART ONE · THE READERS 1762–1791A House on the Han · Books from Beijing · The Retreat · Peter · The Boat · Priests Without Orders · The Tablets
- PART TWO · THE BLOOD 1791–1801The King’s Scholar · The Priest in the Women’s Quarters · The Woman Who Ran It · The Fourth Position · A Death in the Palace · Outside the Small West Gate · The Letter That Was Never Sent · The Child on Chuja Island · The Inn at Yuljeong
- PART THREE · THE ORPHANS 1801–1839Island and Shore · A Boy with Nothing · The Beijing Road · The Same Winter · The Bishop Who Taught Latin · A Letter to the Minister
- PART FOUR · THE PRIESTS 1836–1866The Boys Abroad · Twenty-Five · The Martyr of Sweat · The Man Who Kept the Record
- PART FIVE · THE FLOOD 1864–1886The Regent and the Russians · Lent, 1866 · Ships on the Han · The Last Wave · A Treaty
- EPILOGUEMajae
- BACK MATTERThe Cast · The Names in the Roman Calendar · Timeline · Notes on Sources
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