🇹🇷 🇻🇦 Saint Polycarp

 

  Saint Polycarp
Patron of those with ear problems  ( c 155 Anno Domini A.D.)                   Feast: 23 February
Saints Who Are Invoked in Times of Illness

Polycarp was one of the Apostolic Fathers following just after the apostles. He knew the teaching of Saint John the Evangelist & was friends with Saints Ignatius of Antioch & Irenaeus of Lyons 

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https://www.catholicapostolatecenterfeastdays.org/feast-days-and-solemnities/st-polycarp

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Polycarp became bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir , Turkey ) where he himself suffered martyrdom around the year 155 A.D. The eyewitness account of Polycarp's martyrdom tells how Polycarp calmly awaited those who sough him in a farm near the city & how he served them dinner before they took him into custody ⛓️ Brought to the amphitheater 🏟️ where a crowd gathered, Polycarp heard a voice from say to him, "Be strong 💪 & show yourself a man, Polycarp"

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The proconsul there asked him to curse Christ   "I have served him for 86 years & he has done me no wrong," he replied. "How can I blaspheme my king & savior?" The crowd then demanded his blood 🩸 & he was condemned to be burned to death  Polycarp uttered a prayer  & the fire was set. The flames surrounded him but miraculously did not burn him, & the executioner was commanded to end his life by a spear-thrust.

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Polycarp 's bones   were collected from the ashes by Christians who judged them "more precious than stones of great price." He was at least 86 when he died.

 Father of mercies, through the intercession of Saint Polycarp, make me kind in the face of persecution 

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