Chonamiis the site of the birthplace of 복자 유항검 아우구스티노(Blessed Augustine YuHang-geom), the “Apostle of Honam.” During the 1801 신유박해(Shin-yu Persecution), he was arrested and executed by dismemberment, and hishome was subjected to paga-jotaek, apunishment in which a house is destroyed and replaced with a pond. His entirefamily suffered execution by association in Jeonju.

Thenearby Catechetical House he operated was a place not only for catechesis butalso for Mass and the celebration of the sacraments. This is also where 유중철 요한(Blessed John Yu Jung-cheol) and 이순이 루갈다(Blessed Ludgerie Yi Sun-i) lived their chastemarried life for four years before their arrest.