St. Polycarp: Bishop of Smyrna

This translation of the one extant Letter of St. Polycarp and of the Letter of the Smyrnaeans narrating his martyrdom is designed to put within the reach of English readers two of the most valuable of the classics of the Church. Blomfield Jackson provides an in-depth introduction to the authenticity and dating of the epistles and provides a short introduction to the life of St. Polycarp.