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“Church father Ignatius said that if our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, and the hungry, then we are…

— Shane Claiborne

“For Ignatius, since salvation comes to the human body, it must be experienced in the human body.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Simply in focusing our attention on the “enemy” Ignatius is rendering us a great service. To be unaware that we can expect resistance when…

— Timothy M. Gallagher

Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M…

— Peter Julian Eymard

“CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS”

— Victor Hugo

“Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius's treatise against the Gnostics?" he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant…

— Charles Williams

Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military…

— Saint Ignatius

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“bishops, and the clergy throughout the world. The holier the Church is in her members (especially the pope and the episcopate), the more agreeable…

— Joseph Pohle

“In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire, to the year 325.”

— George Hodges

“In the days of the Roman Colosseum, captured soldiers were regularly thrown to the lions. But one soldier earned a reputation for bravery and…

— Arthur H. Bell

“Augustine, as bishop of Hippo, appointed his monk Antoninus in the 410s to be bishop of a subordinate diocese at Fussala, one of Africa’s…

— Chris Wickham