Saint Polycarp

Your old troubadour always agitated, always as wrathful as Saint Polycarp.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

A French officer, who had been active in the pursuit of him, fell into his hands, and was made to die [the death] of Marsyas or Saint Polycarp -- that is, the period being the middle of summer, he was flayed alive, and, being smeared with honey, was exposed to all the intolerable insects of a southern sky.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

Now that I am a real theologian, and a published one at that, I can add that the entire concept of matter being evil was the worst of ancient Gnostic heresies taught by one Marcion, whom the bishop and martyr Saint Polycarp called "the firstborn of Satan."

The Continuum 2009