Feast Day
2 saints in our library are celebrated on October 17.
Approx. 50 AD — Approx. 110 AD
Ignatius of Antioch — 'the God-bearer' — was the third Bishop of Antioch, traditionally a disciple of the Apostle John, who wrote seven foundational letters of Christian theology while marching in chains to his death in Rome under Emperor Trajan around 110 AD.
c. 339 AD — c. 405 AD
John the Dwarf left Thebes at eighteen for the desert of Scetes, where his teacher Pambo commanded him to water a dead stick daily for three years — twelve miles each way — until it miraculously bloomed into the Tree of Obedience. He became one of the most quoted Desert Fathers, instructed Arsenius the Great, and is venerated as patron saint of people with dwarfism.