Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was ... and arrested in Antioch. He was brought, on a slow journey that lasted months, to the circus in Rome to be devoured by lions.

St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle to the Romans," c. 105 A.D. "Heretics abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the Flesh of our Savior Jesus ...