On page 30 of Flavel’s Mystery of Providence we encounter the names of Polycarp and Dionysius the Areopagite. We are told that the fire would not touch them. A longer account is given of Polycarp’s martyrdom by John Foxe in his classic Foxes Book of Martyrs. That account can be read here. A much more concise account is given by William Howitt:
From The History of the Supernatural in All Ages and Nations: And in All Churches … By William Howitt
