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IGNATIUS THE MARTYR. 49
logy seemed to lend itself readily to their peculiar
tenets. Hence the
freciuent quotations from his letters in Monophysite writers. To his
fiime also may probably be ascribed the fact that for some centuries
past the Jacobite patriarchs of Antioch have regularly assumed the
name of Ignatius on their accession to the see'. The popularity of
the name Clement with the bishops of Rome presents a partial analogy
to this fact. In like manner, just as an ancient Greek liturgy
(perhaps written for the West) is ascribed to Clement as its author,
so also a Jacobite liturgy, though obviously late in date, bears the
name of Ignatius".
In the West on the other hand 'he seems never to have been a
that his foot-
popular saint. It will be shown elsewhere {ii. p. 429 sq)
hold in Western calendars was precarious. Yet his fame must have been
widely spread through the Latin Versions of the Greek Epistles, through
the Acts of Martyrdom, and through the forged correspondence with
the Virgin. At all events for some reason or other the name was not
uncommon in Spain, even at an early date^: and in the sixteenth
century it acquired an unwonted prominence in the founder of the
most powerful order in Christendom.
^
See Assemani Bibl. Orient. II. pp.
381, 382, and also his Dissertatio de
Monophysitis (which is unpaged). From
the close of the i6th century the practice
has been constant. I have not however
it with Ignatius the apostolic father.
-
See Renaudot Liiurg. Orient. 11.
p. 214 sq.
Yonge's History of Christian Names
^
I. p. 401 sq.
IGN. I.