{"id":2076,"date":"2009-02-23T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/02\/polycarps-prayer-from-the-pyre\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:15:00","slug":"polycarps-prayer-from-the-pyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/02\/polycarps-prayer-from-the-pyre.html","title":{"rendered":"Polycarp&#8217;s Prayer from the Pyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SaMuiGl7mRI\/AAAAAAAADFc\/PX6dnVWmeQs\/s1600-h\/polycarp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 218px;height: 320px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SaMuiGl7mRI\/AAAAAAAADFc\/PX6dnVWmeQs\/s320\/polycarp.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br>\u201cI praise you for all things, I bless you, I glorify you through the eternal priest of heaven, Jesus Christ, your beloved Son. Through him be glory to you, together with him and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>When he had said \u201cAmen\u201d and finished the prayer, the officials at the pyre lit it. But, when a great flame burst out, those of us privileged to see it witnessed a strange and wonderful thing. Indeed, we have been spared in order to tell the story to others. Like a ship\u2019s sail swelling in the wind, the flame became as it were a dome encircling the martyr\u2019s body. Surrounded by the fire, his body was like bread that is baked, or gold and silver white-hot in a furnace, not like flesh that has been burnt. So sweet a fragrance came to us that it was like that of burning incense or some other costly and sweet-smelling gum.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI praise you for all things, I bless you, I glorify you through the eternal priest of heaven, Jesus Christ, your beloved Son. 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