39 new priests for the diocese of Seul, one of whom is a deaf-mute: he is the first one in Asia. The celebration stated the agency Fides today took place a few days ago. Father Benedict Park Min-seo this is the name of the deaf-mute priest was looked after, "with patience and care, in his path of vocational understanding, in his years at the seminary and in his studies", until he was ordained priest. Having lost his hearing aged two, Benedict writes the missionary agency began to feel the call to priestly life at a very early age, in 1985, when he attended the school for deaf people, where he met father Michael Jeong Sun-oh, the priest of the parish church of Beon-dong, who worked in the school for deaf-mute people. Having expressed his will to attend the seminary, the local Church "had to specifically get itself organised for him: since there were no courses for deaf-mute people in the Korean seminaries, Benedict was sent to read theology in the United States. Back in Seul, Asia’s first deaf-mute priest continued his studies in the local seminary. "I accomplished my dream said the priest in his first sermon for which he used sign language by becoming a priest after a 22 years’ journey".
