Feb. 23 is the feast day of St. Polycarp (69-155). He was Bishop of Smyrna (Turkey), fought heresy in the early Church, was friend to St. Ignatius of Antioch and martyred for his faith. His surviving ...
St. Polycarp was the bishop of Smyrna and a disciple of St. John, according to St. Irenaeus (c. 130-c. 202) and Tertullian (c. 155-c. 220). I’d like to examine his Epistle to the Philippians. It ...
He works in mysterious ways.
Polycarp is a historical drama about a Christian slave girl, Anna, who was rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd-century Smyrna. As she grows in her newfound faith, taught by Bishop Polycarp, she ...
A real people person and a true man of God – that’s how several parishioners described Father Tom Flowers at his farewell reception Sunday at St. Polycarp Roman Catholic Church in Smyrna. “When I ...
Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, who was “fruitful in every good work” (Col. 1:10), was born in the first century, and lived in Smyrna in Asia Minor. He was orphaned at an early age, but at the ...
The year was A.D. 155, and the persecution against Christians swept across the Roman Empire and came to the city of Smyrna. The proconsul of Symrna, swept up in this persecution, put out an order that ...
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