6.4Ignatius is thrown to the beasts on a festival day at the close of the games, and his wish, stated in his letter, not to leave remains that would burden the brothers is fulfilled.
6.5Only the harder bones of Ignatius remain; they are taken to Antioch and kept as a treasure of the church.
7.1The martyrdom is dated to 20 December, in the consulship of Sura and Senecio.
7.2The writers keep a night vigil and pray for assurance; in a short sleep they see Ignatius embracing them, praying for them, and standing beside the Lord.
7.3The writers praise God for the visions and send the day of the martyrdom so that the churches may gather on it each year in fellowship with Ignatius.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · Closing chapters of the Martyrium Colbertinum (Antiochene Acts of Ignatius), supplied from Funk's edition because the PG 5 scan text of martyrium-ignatii breaks off in chapter 6. The Acts claim to be written by companions of Ignatius; they are generally judged a later composition (4th–5th century).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
4th–5th century (disputed) (disputed) · The account claims eyewitness authorship (ca. 110); most scholars date it much later.
Written at
Antioch (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
martyrdom
Reference system
chapter.section of the Martyrium Colbertinum (Funk 1878 / ANF 1 chapters 1–7 correspond to Funk I–VII).
SBL abbreviation
Mart. Ign.Not yet checked
Text from
F. X. Funk, ed., Opera patrum apostolicorum 1 (Tübingen: Laupp, 1878), 254-265 (Printed edition in the public domain (Funk d. 1907); OCR of a Google Books scan on the Internet Archive)
Critical editions
F. X. Funk and F. Diekamp, Patres Apostolici 2 (Tübingen: Laupp, 1913) (cited, not reproduced)