Saint Irenaeus was sent to Lyons in Gaul ... He was also a peace-maker within the Church. When Victor, Bishop of Rome, was prepared to excommunicate the Christians of Asia Minor for following a ...

During the persecution of Marcus Aurelius, Irenaeus was a priest of the ... of a contemporary of the heroic age of the Church, of one who had heard St. Polycarp, the disciple of St. John, and ...

And this is most abundant proof that there is one and the same life-giving faith, which has been preserved in the Church from the Apostles until now, and handed down in truth." St. Irenaeus ...