# Circa 155-156: no later than 160 due to the known proconsuls of Asia, such as Quadratus and the chronological statements in MartPol 21.
Benko claims that the manner of Peregrinus’s suicide seems to have been shaped in some part by the public martyrdom of early Christians like Polycarp.
Polycarp | The Martyrdom of St Magnus | ''The Martyrdom of Martinian and Processus | ''Martyrdom of Saint Lucy | Martyrdom of Polycarp | Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel | Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben |