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5 days ago · St. Polycarp, in asserting that salvation is “not of works” (citing Ephesians 2), is simply condemning salvation by works or by self-generated works, apart from grace (i.e., Pelagianism). No one disagrees with that, so it’s not at issue. It’s not the same thing as an assertion of “faith alone.”
4 days ago · Polycarp was an indefatigable defender of the orthodox faith especially against the heresies known as Valentinianism and Marcionism, both of which were types of Gnosticism, and he was renowned for his letter-writing, especially his Letter to the Philippians (though St. Irenaeus mentions several others).
4 days ago · A great defender of the faith, St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (feast day: June 28), was a student of St. Polycarp, who was a direct disciple of St. John, the apostle. Even St. Augustine cited Irenaeus as among the “famous and brilliant holy teachers of the Catholic truth.”
5 days ago · CNA Staff, Jun 28, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). On June 28, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Irenaeus of Lyon, who as a boy sat at the feet of Polycarp, eagerly listening to the sermons of the early ...
4 days ago · Irenaeus was a Greek from Polycarp's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey, born during the first half of the 2nd century. The exact date is thought to be between the years 120 and 140.
3 days ago · Ignatius was a friend of St. Polycarp, who was a disciple of St. John, so it is possible that Ignatius, too, knew the beloved disciple. Almost everything else that we know of him comes from the seven letters he wrote after his arrest, which the historian Eusebius of Caesarea places during the reign of the Emperor Trajan, somewhere between the ...
2 days ago · Polycarp to the Philippinas “For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;” and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born ...
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