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Definition of Ignatius

1. Noun. Bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110).

Definition of Ignatius

1. Proper noun. (given name male from=Latin); of mostly Roman Catholic usage in English. ¹

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Literary usage of Ignatius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"Wherefore the noble soldier of Christ [Ignatius], being in fear for the Church of the ... Ignatius replied, " He who has Christ within his breast. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The one source is therefore the epistles, which purport to have been written during the journey of Ignatius from Antioch to Rome to suffer martyrdom. ..."

3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"Ignatius has been informed of the Romans' feelings towards him and of their ... Ignatius uses this means, although he knows that Antiochene devotees have ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"At Paris Ignatius proceeded more cautiously; and the seven years of his stay ... It was at Venice that Caraffa and Ignatius met, and it is probable that it ..."

5. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"We know that Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, «luring the journey that led him a ... Ignatius thanks them also for the welcome which they accorded to his three ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"An insignificant revolt, led by a half-witted adventurer, having broken out, Bardas laid the blame at the door of Ignatius, and having convinced the emperor ..."

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