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Polycarp of Smyrna

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

c. AD 155-160 · 22 chapters

A letter from the church at Smyrna describing the arrest and death of its bishop. Chapters 17 and 18 tell how the Christians gathered his remains and kept the day of his martyrdom.

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  1. Salutation
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. 6
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. 14
  16. 15
  17. 16
  18. 17
  19. 18
  20. 19
  21. 20
  22. 21
  23. 22

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans.