Polycarp of Smyrna - ܦܘܠܝܩܪܦܘܣ
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Polycarp of Smyrna was an early bishop of Smyrna who was martyred as an old man in the second
century. His story became a model for passion narratives of Christian
martyrs. 1
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Polycarp of Smyrna was an early bishop of Smyrna who was martyred as an old man in the second century. His story became a model for passion narratives of Christian martyrs. 1Status: draft
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 153.
- 2 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Polycarp of Smyrna
