Created in Aleppo by the Syrian iconographer Nahmat Badawi, a representation of Saint Ignatius of Antioch will join the new ...

Created in Aleppo by the Syrian iconographer Nahmat Badawi, a representation of Saint Ignatius of Antioch will join the new chapel of the Paris cathedral dedicated to Christians of the East on May 25.

Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

St Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch, and successor to Bishop Euodius, Apostle of the Seventy (September 7). Tradition suggests that when St Ignatius was a little boy, the Savior hugged him ...