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Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69- ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna
(now ?zmir in Turkey) in the second century. He died a martyr when he was
stabbed after an attempt to burn him at the stake failed. Polycarp is
recognized as a saint in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
churches. It is recorded that "He had been a disciple of John." The options
for this John are John the son of Zebedee traditionally viewed as the
author of the Fourth Gospel, or John the Presbyter (Lake 1912). Traditional
advocates follow Eusebius in insisting that the apostolic connection of
Papius was with John the Evangelist, and that this John, the author of the
Gospel of John, was the same as the Apostle John.
Polycarp and Papias Polycarp was a companion of Papias (Irenaeus V.xxxii)
another "hearer of John" as Irenaeus interprets Papias' testimony, and a
correspondent of Ignatius of Antioch. Ignatius addressed a letter to him,
and mentions him in
