St. Polycarp was a bishop and martyr who lived in the first and second centuries of the Christian era. His time is often called the “sub-apostolic age,” because his was the first generation of ...

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 ...

"Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong," said Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would burn him to death.

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 ...