Thomas Son Chasuhn

Thomas Son Chason (1838–1866) was one of the Korean Martyrs canonised by the Roman Catholic church in 1984.

Thomas was a devout Catholic. When Bishop Daveluy was arrested, an authority commissioned anybody to claim the confiscated objects. Everyone was too afraid to go and claim the Church property, and Thomas accepted commission to claim them. But, instead of holding its promise, Mandarin questioned his religion. Thomas confessed it boldly, and was thrown in prison. It was the time of Lent, and Thomas observed with a scrupulous exactitude the fasts and the abstinences of the Church, fasts and abstinences whose rigour was doubled and by his other sufferings, and the insufficient food given to the prisoners. ["On était alors en carême, et Thomas observait avec une scrupuleuse exactitude les jeûnes et les abstinences de l'Eglise, jeûnes et abstinences dont la rigueur était doublée et par ses autres souffrances, et par l'insuffisante nourriture donnée aux prisonniers." [http://books.google.com/books?id=LoUPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=inauthor:charles+inauthor:dallet+tome+second&as_brr=1&ei=V-q4R7bkBIP0iwHts5TPBQ#PRA4-PA558-IA2,M1 Dallet, Charles. Histoire de le̓́glise de Corée pg. 561] ] In the same way, nothing could make him omit any of his ordinary practices of piety.He was severely tortured with amazing constancy and gladness. When fellow Catholics buried him four days later and reburied him somewhere else 20 days later, his body was found to be incorrupt and did not have any bad smell to it. [ [http://saint.paolo.net/personview.php?num=2698 손자선 토마스] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=LoUPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=inauthor:charles+inauthor:dallet+tome+second&as_brr=1&ei=V-q4R7bkBIP0iwHts5TPBQ#PRA4-PA558-IA2,M1 Dallet, Charles. Histoire de le̓́glise de Corée pg. 558] ]

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