The Martyrdom of Polycarp

Martyrium Polycarpi

The Martydom of Polycarp. The Apostolic Fathers with an English translation by Kirsopp Lake. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1913

For this Irenaeus, at the time of the martydom of the bishop Polycarp was in Rome, and taught many, and many most excellent and correct writings are extant, in which he mentions Polycarp,[*](Irenaeus Haer. iii. 3. 4, Ep. ad Florinum (in Eusebius H.E. v. 20) and Ep. ad Victorem (in Eusebius H.E. v. 24). The story of Marcion is in Haer. iii. 3. 4.) saying that he had been his pupil, and he ably refuted every heresy, and

he also handed on the ecclesiastical and catholic rule, as he had received it from the saint.