Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 23

Subject: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 23 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:22 am

Saints Celebrated on this Day

St. Saint Polycarp
St. Peter Damian
St. Cemeuf
St. Alexander Akimetes
St. Boswell
St. Zebinus
St. Willigis
St. Serenus the Gardener
St. Dositheus
St. Felix of Brescia
St. Florentius
St. Jurmin
St. Lazarus Zographos
St. Romana
St. Martha
St. Ordonius
St. Medraid
St. Milburga
St Polycarp of Smyma

Subject: Re: Saints Celebrated on this Day Feb 23 Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:23 am

February 23, 2006
St. Polycarp
(d. 156)

Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), disciple of St. John the Apostle and friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch was a revered Christian leader during the first half of the second century.

St. Ignatius, on his way to Rome to be martyred, visited
Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), disciple of St. John the Apostle and friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch was a revered Christian leader during the first half of the second century.
St. Ignatius, on his way to Rome to be martyred, visited Polycarp at Smyrna, and later at Troas wrote him a personal letter. The Asia Minor Churches recognized Polycarp’s leadership by choosing him as a representative to discuss with Pope Anicetus the date of the Easter celebration in Rome—quite a controversy in the early Church.
Only one of the many letters written by Polycarp has been preserved, the one he wrote to the Church of Philippi, Macedonia.
At 86, Polycarp was led into the crowded Smyrna stadium to be burned alive. The flames did not harm him and he was finally killed by a dagger. The centurion ordered the saint’s body burned. The “Acts” of Polycarp’s martyrdom are the earliest preserved, fully reliable account of a Christian martyr’s death. He died in 156.
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“Stand fast, therefore, in this conduct and follow the example of the Lord, ‘firm and unchangeable in faith, lovers of the brotherhood, loving each other, united in truth,’ helping each other with the mildness of the Lord, despising no man” (Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians).
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