Pope Sends Blessing to Daejeon Bakery on Its 70th Anniversary
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
The Pope sent a congratulatory blessing to Seongsimdang, a famous bakery in Daejeon, South Korea, as it marks its 70th anniversary. Founded in 1956 as a steamed bun shop near Daejeon Station, Seongsimdang grew by practicing a sharing economy—donating unsold bread daily to those in need—and has become hugely successful, even surpassing 100 billion KRW in sales for a single bakery. In a message dated December 16, Pope Leo XIV praised the bakery’s social and economic contributions to community solidarity and expressed apostolic blessings, invoking the protection of the Virgin Mary and Korean martyr saints. (Seongsimdang: a long-standing Daejeon bakery known for charitable giving and popular baked goods.)
