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Her feast day is May 24, and she is also venerated along with the rest of the 103 Korean martyrs on September 20. 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 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.
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. "What," she said, "for a few days of life will you expose yourselves to everlasting death? Instead of soliciting me to transgress, you should exhort me to remain steadfast.
Return, return rather to God, and envy me my happiness."
Anna remained in prison for three months, and died on 24 May 1839, at the age of fifty-seven.