Anna Pak Agi

Who was Anna Pak Agi?

Saint Anna Pak Agi is one of 103 Korean Martyrs.

Anna was naturally slow, and she had great difficulty in learning about religion. She consoled herself by saying, "Since I cannot know my God as I should desire to do, I will at least endeavour to love Him with all my heart."

She married a Christian, and brought up her children in that religion. She felt particular devotion in meditating on the Passion of our Lord: the sight of His five wounds was sufficient to draw abundant tears from her eyes. When she heard persecution mentioned, her countenance, far from growing pale, became, on the contrary, more animated.

She was arrested with her husband and eldest son. The latter had numerous friends at court, who did all in their power to make them apostatise, and at length succeed as far as her husband and son were concerned: they were then set free. Anna, however, remained firm. The judge often tried to shake her determination by severity or by kindness, but his endeavours were vain. She was tortured very frequently.

Her husband and son came to see her daily and entreated her to say but one word, and leave the prison.