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St. Polycarp

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The Importance of Tradition in the Early Church

Polycarp is the first martyr's account that we have outside of St. Stephen's account in actually Apostles. Polycarp's martyrdom, if you notice that, it looks a lot like Christ. It's very, very much patterned on Christ's martyrdom,. Christ's death. So that's one of the themes as you go through the letters.

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