Polycarp. Wow. This guy was THE MAN. But his name is kind of weird. Reminds me of a Pokemon, Magicarp…anyway, Polycarp was the Bishop of Smyrna, a city in modern Turkey. There was a wave of Christian persecution with the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the first century, and fate would have it that Polycarp was arrested. Of course, Polycarp had done nothing wrong; in fact, all he did was good and holy, often being the peacemaker in matters of dispute in the church. But the persecutors didn’t care for any of this, and they captured Polycarp when he was 90 to burn him at the stake. After suffering humiliating treatment by his captors, he was led into an amphitheatre and burned alive in AD 166 for refusing to sacrifice to heathen gods. When given the chance to renounce his faith and live, this is what Polycarp had to say: "Fourscore and six years have I served Christ, and He hath never done me wrong; how then can I now blaspheme my King and Savior?" Beautiful, isn’t it?
yes indeed it is. We see devoted people getting persecuted every day in our time too and to think that some people die for their faith, I think not all faith are the same but Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life. God help us.
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yes indeed it is. We see devoted people getting persecuted every day in our time too and to think that some people die for their faith, I think not all faith are the same but Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life. God help us.
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