CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2024 / 04:00 am. On Oct. 17, the Roman Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings attest to the sacramental ...

When it came to describing the devastation wrought on Antioch by the earthquake of 526, the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas told a tale of fire and brimstone not unlike that of February 2023 ...