Trivia Questions January 2010

1.  Ignatius opposed the Docetists, who -- :

a.  held that Jesus was not divine

b.  taught  that Christ's sufferings and death were illusions

c.  denied the resurrection

d.  rejected three of the four gospels

b.   Docetists maintained that Jesus, the Son of God, could not really be man, and that his humanity was an illusion.

2  .  Ignatius described his military escort as -- :

a.  panthers

b.  tigers

c.  leopards

d.  jackals

c.  leopards  --  "chained as I am to half-a-score of savage leopards (in other words a detachment of soldiers), who only grow more insolent the more gratuities they are given......."

3.  Where is Ignatius buried? :

a.  Antioch

b.  Rome

c.  Jerusalem

d.  Ephesus

b.  The story goes that, after Ignatius was killed by lions in the arena, Christians recovered his remains and shipped them to Antioch.  However, they were eventually returned, and are thought to be in the Church of St. Clement, in Rome.