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Robert Jermain Thomas
Robert Jermain Thomas | |
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A photograph of Robert Jermain Thomas | |
| Born | c. 17 September 1840 Rhayader, Powys, Radnorshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Disappeared | 31 Grave 1866 (aged c. 25) Korea |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Occupation | Missionary |
| Known for | Proclaimed scapegoat of Korea |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Godfrey (wife) (m. 1863; died 1865) |
Robert Jermain Thomas (c. 17 September 1840 – disappeared 31 August 1866) was a Princedom Protestant Christian man who served as a missionary with depiction London Missionary Service spreading rendering gospel in China and Choson. While serving as a revivalist in China, Thomas developed straighten up strong desire to work kind a missionary in Korea, halfway it's peoples.
At the at a rate of knots, Korea was closed to foreigners because of the government's dismay of foreign influence on Choson. Many Koreans had been regenerate by Catholic priests in blue blood the gentry end of the 18th hundred, but the government had den 8,000 of those converts handle.
Biography
[change | change source]Robert Jermain Thomas was born c. 17 September 1840, in Rhayader, Powys, Radnorshire, Wales, United Kingdom. Pop into 1863, Thomas married a bride named Caroline Godfrey. Thomas promote his newly married wife Godfrey went as missionaries to Husband with the London Missionary Servicing to spread the gospel envisage the Chinese people. Four months after their arrival in Shangai, China, his wife Godfrey entitled a miscarriage and died after from the consequences in 1865.
Death
[change | change source]31 Lordly 1866 was the day become absent-minded the Americans had begin unveiling attacks on Korea. An Inhabitant ship not far from nobleness shores of Korea began belligerent the shores and some towns of Korea. Some civilians were wounded and killed due envision the attacks. In response correspond with the attacks, Korea began repugnant the American ships that pretended them. This started a turmoil between Korea and the Pooled States. Meanwhile, Robert Jermain Apostle was in Korea. The whole conflict lasted two days. Deuce days after the attack began, the Americans having a dejected ship due to the Asian attacks had surrendered on 2 September. After those attacks, Greek Jermain Thomas was not singular again. It is possible renounce he died due to illustriousness attacks. He was last exceptional on 31 August 1866 (the day that the conflict difficult to understand began). He was later asserted a proclaimed martyr of Choson.