What is Robert Jermain Thomas?
{{No sources|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Jermain Thomas | image = Robert Jermain Thomas.jpg | image_size = | caption = A photograph of Robert Jermain Thomas | birth_name = | birth_date = {{circa}} 17 September 1840 | birth_place = [[Rhayader]], [[Powys]], [[Radnorshire]], [[Wales]], [[United Kingdom]] | disappeared_date = 31 August 1866 (aged {{circa}} 25) | disappeared_place = [[Korea]] | nationality = Welsh | occupation = Missionary | known_for = Proclaimed martyr of Korea | spouse = Caroline Godfrey<br/> (wife)<br/> (m. 1863; died 1865) }} '''Robert Jermain Thomas''' ({{circa}} 17 September 1840{{spnd}}disappeared 31 August 1866) was a Welsh Protestant Christian man who served as a missionary with the [[London Missionary Service]] spreading the gospel in [[China]] and [[Korea]]. While serving as a missionary in China, Thomas developed a strong desire to work as a missionary in Korea, among it's peoples.<br/> At the time, Korea was closed to foreigners because of the government's fear of foreign influence on Korea. Many Koreans had been converted by Catholic priests in the end of the [[18th century]], but the government had around 8,000 of those converts killed. == Biography == Robert Jermain Thomas was born {{circa}} 17 September 1840, in [[Rhayader]], [[Powys]], [[Radnorshire]], [[Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. In 1863, Thomas married a woman named Caroline Godfrey. Thomas and his newly married wife Godfrey went as missionaries to [[China]] with the [[London Missionary Service]] to spread the gospel to the Chinese people. Four months after their arrival in [[Shangai]], China, his wife Godfrey suffered a miscarriage and died afterwards from the consequences in 1865. == Death == 31 August 1866 was the day that the Americans had begin launching attacks on Korea. An American ship not far from the shores of Korea began attacking the shor