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Tertullian – Appendix to Ad Martyras (Tertullian’s address to martyrs)
The following writing dates from around 203 AD. It so closely relates to Tertullian's Ad Martyras, it grew to be
Epistle of the Church at Smyrna concerning the Martyrdom of the Holy Polycarp
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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
The Letter to the Romans by Ignatius, an early-second-century Bishop of Antioch, was written during his transport from Antioch, Syria,