Martyrium Ignatii
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Martyrium Ignatii is a work that claims to be an eye witness of the events leading up to his death and the martyrdom of Saint Ignatius.{{Cite web |title=Ignatius of Antioch |url=http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/info/ignatius-cathen.html |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.earlychristianwritings.com}}{{cite book |last=Jefford |first=Clayton N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jq4Wo3YFskUC |title=The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament |publisher=Baker Publishing Group |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4412-4177-1 |location=Grand Rapids, MI}}
Authorship
Its most reliable manuscript is the 10th-century Codex Colbertinus (Paris), in which the Martyrium closes the collection. The Martyrium presents the confrontation of the bishop Ignatius with Trajan at Antioch, a familiar trope of Acts of the martyrs, and many details of the long, partly overland voyage to Rome.{{Cite web |title=Lives of Saints :: Kiahk 24 |url=http://www.copticchurch.net/synaxarium/4_24.html#1 |access-date=2020-07-25 |website=www.copticchurch.net}}{{Cite book |last=Ignatius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mKCq5KKgaH8C&dq=Martyrium+Ignatii&pg=PP16 |title=The Sacred Writings of Saint Ignatius |date=2012 |publisher=Jazzybee Verlag |isbn=978-3-8496-2135-3 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Page:Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 7.djvu/717 - Wikisource, the free online library |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Catholic_Encyclopedia,_volume_7.djvu/717 |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=en.wikisource.org |language=en}} The writer has been said to be a deacon in Tarsus named Philo and Rheus Agathopus. However, even scholars who accept the book as authentic believe that it has been heavily edited by later authors.{{Cite web |title=Ignatius of Antioch |url=http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/info/ignatius-cathen.html |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.earlychristianwritings.com}}{{cite book |last=Jefford |first=Clayton N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jq4Wo3YFskUC |title=The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament |publisher=Baker Publishing Group |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-4412-4177-1 |location=Grand Rapids, MI}}
Content
The book tells the story of Ignatius' death and the events leading up to his death, the book also implies that Ignatius was one of the children Christ held in Matt. 18:2.{{Cite web |title=Philip Schaff: History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library |url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xv.vi.html |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.ccel.org}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0123.htm English translation of the Martyrdom of Ignatius]
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