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✦ Feast Day c. AD 35–107

Feast of Ignatius of Antioch

Ignatius had no time for speculative theology — he was writing urgent pastoral letters on the way to his death. When he states the Eucharist is the flesh of Christ, or that nothing in the Church may be done without the bishop, he is stating what he takes to be obvious. What a man states as obvious on his way to be eaten by lions is reliable testimony.