Taken to Troas, a port city located along the northern route through Asia Minor to the Aegean Sea—across which lies Europe and the final, fateful leg of the journey to Rome—St. Ignatius of Antioch will write three letters, the last of which was sent to the saintly bishop of Smyrna, Polycarp, numbered among the immortals of the Early Church. For like Ignatius himself, he, too, will wear the laurels…