إغناطيوس الأنطاكي: الأسقف الذي كتب سبع رسائل في طريقه للموت في روما

Ignatius was the bishop of Antioch who wrote seven letters on his way to die in Rome. Early in the second century, by tradition under the emperor Trajan, soldiers took him from Syria to die by wild beasts. On the road he wrote to six churches and to Polycarp of Smyrna, and those letters hold almost everything known about him. Who was Ignatius of Antioch? Antioch was one of the three great cities of the Roman Empire, with Rome and…