Coptic fragment with the end of a Martyrdom of *Ignatios (bishop of Antioch and martyr of Rome, S00649), giving his feast day as 25 June; composed probably in the 5th/7th c., preserved in a manuscript of the 9th/11th c.
Evidence ID
E01856
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdom
K 07587
This fragment contains the end of the Martyrdom of Ignatios. It cites from a letter of condolence most likely on the occasion of his death, and describes the letters of Ignatios as having been collected and copied by the scribe for the benefit of those who read them. The text records the feast day of Ignatios as the 1st of Epeiph (25 June).
ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲇⲉ ⲙⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲛⲧⲁⲑⲗⲏⲥⲓⲥ ⲙⲡⲅⲉⲛⲛⲁⲓⲟⲥ ⲙⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲟ[ⲥ] ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ
ⲅⲛⲁⲧⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲁⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲡⲉ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲁ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲉⲡⲏⲫ ⲕⲁⲧⲁ ⲛⲣⲙⲛⲕⲏⲙⲏ
‘The remembrance day of the contest of the noble martyr and bishop Ignatios, the pious, is the first day of the month Epeiph according to the Egyptians.’
Transcription from online image, and translation: Gesa Schenke.
FestivalsComposing and translating saint-related texts
Saint’s feast
Non Liturgical ActivityComposing and translating saint-related texts
Transmission, copying and reading saint-related texts
Source
The parchment fragment K 07587 is kept in the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian Library in Vienna, datable by its script to the 9th–11th century.For publication details, dating, size and images of the parchment fragment visit: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00007656
Discussion
Various different dates for the feast day of Ignatios of Antioch are mentioned in the sources. While the Syriac tradition, recorded in the Martyrology of 411, celebrates him on 17 October (see E01569), the Eastern and Coptic Orthodox Church observe it on 20 December (24th of Choiak). But there are also other days recorded, see E00990 (25 December), and E01840 (1 July), in addition to the record here for 25 June.The Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria records two different feast days, having created two bishops named Ignatios. Ignatios, bishop of Antioch, martyred in Rome under Trajan, 24th of Choiak (20 December), appears there next to another Ignatius, bishop of Rome, martyred under Hadrian, 7th of Epeiph (1 July).
Bibliography
German translation:Till, W.C., Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrlegenden. Vol. 1 (Rome: Pont. institutum orientalium studiorum, 1935), 20–21.
Further reading:
O'Leary, De L., Saints of Egypt (London: SPCK, 1937), 157.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
15/9/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00649 | Ignatios, bishop of Antioch and martyr of Rome | ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲅⲛⲁⲧⲓⲟⲥ | Certain |
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