Peter Yu Tae-chol

Saint Peter Yu Tae-chol (유대철 베드로) (1826–1839) was one of the 103 Korean Martyrs, and was a son of a government interpreter named Augustine Yu, also a martyr. Peter's mother and sisters were enemies of Catholicism and ill-treated Peter. Peter lamented the spiritual blindness of his mother and sisters but treated them respectfully. He thought that he will never be able to escape the search of ministers of justice, so he went to the tribunal and gave himself up. He was heavily tortured in amazing tranquility and firmness. In prison he encouraged the disheartened, and exhorted apostates to repentance. He was strangled in prison at the age of thirteen on October 31st, 1839. [cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |title=The New Glories of the Catholic Church |accessdate=2008-05-09 |edition= |year=1859 |publisher=Richardson and Son |location=London |pages=pp. 99–100 |chapter=Peter Liou |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=QMUCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA99 ] [ [http://www.pauline.or.kr/catholic/info/korea_view.php?id=1016 유대철 베드로] ]

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