Wikipedia's article on the Korean Martyrs, community-edited. States five separate Catholic persecution episodes in Choson Korea between 1791 and 1866, eight to ten thousand Korean Christians killed across the whole period, and religious liberty formally granted in Korea in 1886. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used alongside the existing Baker and Rausch scholarly monograph specifically for the exact 1791 start, the 1886 tolerance date and the casualty range, none of which the monograph's own on-file description states in that detail. NotesUsed with the existing Baker and Rausch monograph for the persecution of Catholicism in Choson Korea from 1791 to 1886.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Martyrs
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Korea, Regions This source names Korea directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Korean Martyrs, community-edited."
Source Korean Martyrs (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Korean directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Korean Martyrs, community-edited."
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