Polycarp (69-155 AD)

A pupil of the apostle of love they were a number of supernatural events around his death. "...At length, when those wicked men perceived that his body could not be consumed by the fire, they commanded an executioner to go near and pierce him through with a dagger. And on his doing this, there came forth a dove, and a great quantity of blood, so that the fire was extinguished..." (THE ENCYCLICAL EPISTLE OF THE CHURCH AT SMYRNA CONCERNING THE MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP - Chapter 16 - 155AD)"