Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle to the Romans," c ... 189 A.D. "The bread and the wine of the Eucharist before the holy invocation of the adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, but ...