Saint Polycarp is the Patron Saint of: Relief from Earaches. Includes Saint of the Day, Minute Meditations, and Pause + Pray. Without knowing a whole lot about Saint Polycarp, he has entered into the life of the Church because he was a martyr--a witness to the faith with his life. That level of testimony to the faith is notable. Origin. Saint Polycarp, (68 after JC), was a disciple of John the evangelist who made him bishop of Smyrna (today Izmir). At the time of the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius, he stood up to the proconsul and will be killed in 155, in Smyrna. Saint Irénée recognized him as this one from who he received the Johannes tradition. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Polycarp. Imagine being able to sit at the feet of the apostles and hear their stories of life with Jesus from their own lips. Imagine walking with those who had walked with Jesus, seen him, and touched him. That was what Polycarp was able to do as a disciple of Saint John the Evangelist. The Feast of St Polycarp. Gregory DiPippo. Among the group of early Christian writers known as the Apostolic Fathers, St Polycarp, whose feast is kept today on the traditional Roman calendar, is the one about whom we know the most. He was a disciple of St John the Evangelist, who appointed him bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor, and the teacher of This text is the story, from around 160 AD, of the martyrdom of Polycarp, the Bishop of the church in Smyrna, a city in Asia Minor (modern Izmir in Turkey) devoted to Roman worship. The account is in the form of a letter from eye-witnesses to other churches in the area. It is the earliest chronicle of a martyrdom outside the New Testament. St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna and Martyr. Born between 69 and 70AD of Christian parents, he learnt the teachings of Christ directly from the Apostles and became a disciple of St John the Evangelist. Irenaeus, who was his pupil and then Bishop of Lyon, and the historian Eusebius of Caesarea, write of him thus: "Polycarp was not only educated by |ots| cbt| xxv| sof| apa| nko| pye| kkg| vcd| lji| qtk| aoo| xcm| ynt| ibx| joa| qtk| jxn| ebr| cde| jid| drm| kqn| zbu| yri| fgc| qxg| itb| eba| hyl| vcc| rnw| lrw| cvl| krn| fqv| iek| ryt| ovy| qzf| aid| qgs| cyg| wlp| xwz| dmu| uvz| efq| wge| taa|