2. The Martyrdom Of Polycarp (c. 155 AD)

"Fourscore and six years have I served Him, and he has done me no harm. How then can I curse my King that saved me." This quote of the aged Polycarp was made to the Roman Proconsul who urged him to curse Christ and live. Polycarp was burned alive, apparently because it was too late to throw him to the wild animals because the “sports” were closed. Polycarp was a Christian minister in Smyrna, who had ties to eyewitnesses of Christ, and himself instructed Irenaeus (c. 130-202).