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Merry Christmas - from Jeju-do Island
Completing Christmas with the Korean fir tree from Hallasan (ÇѶó»ê)
Germans started it, but Americans perfected the celebration of Christmas in the 20th Century.
While no Christmas is complete without the Christmas tree, a native Korean fir called ±¸»ó³ª¹« (Gusang namu) is the choice of Christmas tree in many homes in the U.S. and in Europe.
First encountered by Father Emile Joseph Taquet (1873~1952), a French missionary, in Mount Hallasan in Jeju Island in the early 1900s, famed botanist Ernest Henry Wilson (1876 – 1930), a British plant collector and explorer, documented his 1919 encounter with the Gusang Namu in Hallasan as Abies koreana, in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, the oldest public arboretum in North America.
Gusang namu (Abies koreana), the Korean fir, known for its unique blue cone, is abundantly found in elevations over 3,281 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level in Korea¡¯s Jeju Island, where the weather at high elevations on Hallasan is unforgivingly harsh in winter.
The Korean fir, which is widely available in the U.S. and in Europe, makes an excellent pyramid-shaped garden tree, or 'potted living Christmas tree.'
Jeju Island was the first place in Korea where Korea's first Catholic priest landed, on Sept. 28, 1845.
Father Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846), Korea's first Catholic priest, was educated in Macau from age 15, and was ordained as a priest in Shanghai in 1844 by the French bishop Jean-Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Ferréol (1808-1853). Kim Taegon's great-grandfather and father had been martyred (executed) for practicing Christianity in Korea.
Long before European missionaries arrived, Koreans who had obtained the Bible translated into Hanja characters learned about Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God. When the first consecrated missionaries arrived in 1836, Koreans were already practicing Christianity.
The first Korean Christians were Yangbans, or nobles, the educated elite who had literacy with the Hanja bible imported from the Qing dynasty.
Mainstream Korean nobles owned slaves and did not believe in the equality of all men and women. Christianity challenged the status quo, and it was not compatible with their world view.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Christianity was severely suppressed, and more than 10,000 Korean Christians were executed.
When Pope John Paul II addressed the first ever canonization ceremony outside of Rome, in Korea in the 1984 canonization of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (¼º¾Èµå·¹¾Æ ±è´ë°Ç) and 102 martyrs, the Pope noted:
'The Korean Church is unique because it was founded entirely by lay people. This fledgling Church, so young and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of fierce persecution. Thus, in less than a century, it could boast of 10,000 martyrs.'
Just before Saint Andrew Kim Taegon was beheaded in Seoul on Sept. 16, 1846, at the tender age of 25, he said:
'This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: If I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for Him that I die. My immortal life is on the point of beginning. Become Christians if you wish to be happy after death, because God has eternal chastisements in store for those who have refused to know Him.'
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