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Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and companions, the Korean martyrs; Andrew was the first native Korean priest; he was arrested and beheaded while trying to arrange water passage for more missionaries; Paul was a lay apostle and married man, also died in 1839 at age 45; along with Andrew and Paul, 98 other Koreans and three French missionaries who were martyred between 1839 and 1867 were canonized by Pope John Paul II Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/20/24 Gospel: Luke 8:1-3