''Martyrium Ignatii'' is a work that claims to be an eye witness of the events leading up to his death and the martyrdom of Saint Ignatius.

Authorship

Its most reliable manuscript is the 10th-century ''

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'' (Paris), in which the ''Martyrium'' closes the collection. The ''Martyrium'' presents the confrontation of the bishop Ignatius with

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at Antioch, a familiar

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of ''Acts'' of the martyrs, and many details of the long, partly overland voyage to Rome. The writer has been said to be a deacon in Tarsus named

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and Rheus Agathopus . However, even among the scholars who accept the book as authentic believe that it has been heavily edited by later authors.

Content

The book tells the story of Ignatius' death and the events leading up to his death, the book also implies that Ignatius was one of the children Christ held in ''Matt. 18:2.''

References

External links

English translation of the Martyrdom of Ignatius
{{Italic title 2nd-century Christian texts