By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - The life of St. Ignatius of Antioch was connected to other great figures in the early Church, not least being St. John the Evangelist... There were altogether seven letters sent by Ignatius of Antioch, its sainted bishop and martyr, to various communities of the faithful lying between Antioch and Rome—the latter, of course, being the place of rendezvous where ravenous beasts eagerly awaited his arrival, which took place, so far as we know, in the year A.D. 107.