 And so the reason I refer to someone like St. Ignatius of Antioch, who is from the era of the apostles, learned the gospel from the apostle John, it seems he also knew the apostle Peter, who was also in the upper room at the Last Supper. He teaches St. Ignatius the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. In his letters that he wrote on his way to Rome to be eaten by wild animals as his form of martyrdom,