“Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)”

📜🔥 NEW SONG DROPS FEB 23: “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)”

On the Feast of St. Polycarp, we’re releasing a Catholic gunslinger ballad about one of the earliest—and hardest—Christian stands in history.

Polycarp was an old bishop of Smyrna, hauled into a stadium, pressed to “just say the words,” and walk away.
Swear by Caesar. Curse Christ. Live.

And he answered with the kind of calm courage the world can’t compute:
“Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and Savior?”

This song isn’t gore. It isn’t shock. It’s witness.
A reminder that empires wear borrowed crowns—and Christ is King even when the crowd is loud.

🎶 “Eighty-Six Years (The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp)” — for Catholics, converts, history nerds, and anyone who needs steel in the spine and peace in the chest.

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