The Roman Catholic Church has long held up the authenticity of the letters from past to present. In 1886, Presbyterian minister and church historian William Dool Killen published an essay extensively arguing that none of the epistles attributed to Ignatius is authentic.
A tradition arose that he was one of the children whom Jesus Christ took in his arms and blessed. == Veneration == Ignatius' feast day was kept in his own Antioch on 17 October, the day on which he is now celebrated in the Catholic Church and generally in western Christianity, although from the 12th century until 1969 it was put at 1 February in the General Roman Calendar. In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is observed on 20 December.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the scholars Robert Joly, Reinhard Hübner, Markus Vinzent, and Thomas Lenchner argued forcefully that the epistles of the Middle Recension were forgeries written during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD).
In the late 1970s and 1980s, the scholars Robert Joly, Reinhard Hübner, Markus Vinzent, and Thomas Lenchner argued forcefully that the epistles of the Middle Recension were forgeries written during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD).
Doctoral thesis University of the Orange Free State 1997, Dutch, pdf) == Further reading == == External links == Early Christian writings: On-line texts of St.
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