Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (–155)
Author of Ignatius of Antioch & Polycarp of Smyrna (Early Christian Fathers)
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Works by Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
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The Didache: The Epistle of Barnabus, the Epistles and the Martyrdom of St. Polycarp, the Fragments of Papias, the… (1948) 233 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent Season and Christmas Season) (1974) — Contributor — 98 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Contributor — 84 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Contributor — 65 copies
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Contributor — 24 copies
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- Canonical name
- Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
- Other names
- Polycarp of Smyrna
Polycarp - Birthdate
- 69
- Date of death
- 155
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Roman Empire
- Place of death
- Smyrna, Asia Minor
- Places of residence
- Smyrna, Asia Minor
- Occupations
- Bishop
- Organizations
- Roman Catholic Church
- Short biography
- Polycarp (Greek: Πολύκαρπος, Polýkarpos; AD 69–155) was a 2nd-century Christian bishop of Smyrna. According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp he died a martyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him.
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Ignatius of Antioch & Polycarp of Smyrna (Early… by Kenneth Howell
Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna were two of the greatest leaders of Christianity in the first half of the second century. Both suffered martyrdom: Ignatius in Rome during the reign of Trajan, and Polycarp in Smyrna some time in the mid-century.
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