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New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin [Page 118] - English
URL: http://www.ccel.org/php/disp.php3?a=schaff&b=encyc09&p=118&v=thml

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Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies [Page 846] - English
URL: http://www.ccel.org/php/disp.php?authorID=wace&bookID=biodict&page=846&view=png

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CIN - St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna - English
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Catholic Information Network (CIN). The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrnam Concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp (Palm DOC).

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Polycarp, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/po/Polycarp.html

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c.A.D. 70–A.D. 156?, Greek bishop of Smyrna, Father of the Church. He was a disciple of St. John, who appointed him bishop. Thus he linked the apostles and such 2d-century Christian expositors as St. Irenaeus. St. Polycarp was a close friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch. As a very old man, Polycarp went to Rome to discuss the problem of dating Easter.

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Biography - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/02/23.html

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Polycarp was Bishop of Smyrna (today known as Izmir), a city on the west coast of Turkey. The letters to the "seven churches in Asia" at the beginning of the book of Revelation include a letter to the church in Smyrna, identifying it as a church undergoing persecution.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintp13.htm

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Memorial 23 February Profile Associate of, converted by, and disciple of Saint John the Apostle. Friend of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. Fought Gnosticism. Bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey). Revered Christian leader during the first half of the second century. The Asia Minor churches recognized Polycarp's leadership and chose him representative to Pope Anicetus on the question the date of the Easter celebration.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Polycarp - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12219b.htm

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Martyr (A.D. 69-155). Our chief sources of information concerning St. Polycarp are: (1) the Epistles of St. Ignatius; (2) St. Polycarp's own Epistle to the Philippians; (3) sundry passages in St. Irenaeus; (4) the Letter of the Smyrnaeans recounting the martyrdom of St. Polycarp.

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I - English
URL: http://ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-13.htm

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The Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrnam. Concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp.

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The Martyrdom of Polycarp - English
URL: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/martyrdompolycarp.html

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The Martyrdom of Polycarp on Early Christian Writings: the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers: information and translations of Gospels, Epistles, and documents of early Christianity.

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I - English
URL: http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-10.htm

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Introductory Note to the Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians.

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