St. Ignatius of Antioch

Catholic Saints

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A Father of the early Church, St. Ignatius of Antioch is an incredible model of Christian discipleship. He is also one of Dr. Ben Akers' favorite saints. Sit down with Dr. Ben Akers and Taylor Kemp as they discuss this remarkable bishop, who died a martyr for his fidelity to Christ.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,
0:09.2	an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.
0:20.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Taylor Kemp. I'm the director of Form everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:23.0	My name is Taylor Kemp.
0:23.9	I'm the director of Formed, and with me is...
0:25.8	Dr. Ben Acres, chief content officer here at the Augustine Institute.
0:29.0	Yes, and today we are talking about St. Ignatius of Antioch.
0:32.8	Dr. Akers, what do we need to know about St. Ignatius of Antioch?
0:36.1	Many things.
0:37.0	We're not going to cover all the things in a short 18-minute episode.
0:40.4	But I just want to say he's one of my favorite saints.
0:43.2	Okay.
0:43.7	One of my favorite saints of all time.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:45.6	He's a model of Christian discipleship.
0:48.4	Okay.
0:48.8	His martyrdom becomes kind of a manual for martyrdom is how one Christian writer put in.
0:55.1	But he's an early church father. Yep. Okay. So he's also a doctor of the church. Okay. So he died. What we know about
1:00.5	him biographically is he died around 107. So we're talking very early. Exactly. So possibly
1:06.4	birth date around 30. Wow. Yeah. We know from St. John Christostom, who is a bishop in Antioch,
1:12.4	so he's Ignatius of Antioch. Bishop later, St. John Christostom, a couple hundred years later,
1:18.7	said that Ignatius of Antioch had the C, was bishop for 40 years in Antioch. That's a long time.
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