Saint Cecilia's Youth Group

Posting a new Saint every month will hopefully widen our knowledge of the church. This will be helpful to the Confirmation students in 9th and 10th grade because they will eventually have to pick a Saint and we hope it will help everyone else too!

October's SOTM is Saint Ignatius of Antioch!!

-Born in Syria, c50.
-Died in Rome, Italy from being thrown to wild animals.
-Patron saint of throat diseases, churches in the eastern Mediterranean and churches in north Africa.
-Saint Day = October 17th, formerly February 1st
-Represented by: a bishop surrounded by lions, chains, or lions

Saint Ignatius is also known as the "God-bearer" or "Theophoros." He converted from paganism to Christianity and succeeded Saint Peter the Apostle as bishop of Antioch, Syria. As Trajan was being persecuted, he was ordered to be killed by wild animals at Rome, Italy. As he traveled there, he wrote a series of encouraging letters to the churches under his care. He is a martyr and an apostolic father. Also, the first person to use the term "the Catholic Church."




Reflection:
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.... I long after the Lord, the Son of the true God and Father, Jesus Christ. Him I seek, who died for us and rose again.... I am eager to die for the sake of Christ. My love has been crucified, and there is no fire in me that loves anything. But there is living water springing up in me, and it says to me inwardly: Come to the Father.