Dr Simon Yarrow
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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You can have kind of...
them encrusted on books.
You can have these things called speaking reliquaries, which are shaped in the kind of, in the way, in the kind of the form of the relic that survives.
So it has an arm or busts like a head.
It's meant to stimulate curiosity.
It's also usually very gruesome.
Yeah, well, the classic example that historians cite is Polycarp.
But Bishop Polycarp was the Bishop of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia in the second century.
Yeah, that's right.
And he was pushed to do cult to a kind of imperial altar and refused to do so.
And for refusing to do so, so conspicuously as a bishop...
He was burnt.
He was put on a pyre and burnt.
And he was very stubborn and he refused to burn for quite some time.
So they had to skewer him with a spear.
Oh, it just comes up, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Poles all the time, isn't it?
And...
So eventually he died and he was burnt right down to his ashes and his bones.
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