Meals available with reservation.

MirinaeShrine takes its name from the sight of lantern lights glowing from Catholichomes in the mountains during the Shin-yu (1801) andGi-hae (1839) Persecutions—lights that resembled the Milky Way(“Mirinae”) shining in the night.

Hererest the remains of St. Andrew Kim Dae-geon, his mother UrsulaKo, Bishop Jean Ferréol, Fr.Kang Do-young Marco (the third Korean priest and first pastor ofMirinae), and Vincent Lee Min-sik, who broughtSt. Andrew Kim’s body from Saenamteo and offered his family land to the Church.

In1976, the Diocese of Suwon relocated the relics of many unnamed martyrs fromthe region to this site, enabling pilgrims to witness the full span of Korea’smartyrdom history from persecution to the present.

Withinthe shrine grounds are:

• The Memorial Church of St. AndrewKim Dae-geon

• The Church commemorating the Canonizationof the 103 Martyrs

• St. Joseph’s Church of Mirinae,which houses a relic of St. Andrew Kim

• The tomb of BishopFerréol, fulfilling his wish to “rest beside a holymartyr.”