The Lois Drewer Calendar of Saints
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Polycarp of Smyrna.

Bishop of Smyrna in Asia. Martyred in 167.

Synax.CP, Feb. 23, par. 1 (col. 485).

BHG 1556-1564; BiblSS X 985-8; Fedalto 134; Holweck 822; LCI VIII 219; ODCC 1107; ODS 361-2.

Moscow, gr. 183, p. 106. Bishop. Martyrdom, burning. An executioner pushes Polycarp toward a bonfire. Name inscribed. (Tréneff, Ménologe grec, p. 7, fig. 22).

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 28r. Bishop. Martyrdom, beheading. (Hutter, II, p. 16, fig. 51).

Vatican, gr. 1613, p. 419. Bishop. Martyrdom, burning. An executioner pushes Polycarp toward a bonfire. (Menologio, I, p. 113, II, fig. p. 419).

Cozia. Narthex, west wall. Martyrdom, burning in furnace. (Mijović, Menolog, p. 357, fig. 62, pl. 246).

Dečani. Narthex, center aisle, west wall. Bishop, holding book.²⁴ (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 175, fig. T III 28a).

²⁴ Identification proposed by Babić et al, no. 175.

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