Original sentence: , whose bones were called "more valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold" by the Smyrnaean church and were kept to recall and celebrate the anniversary of his martyrdom.By the fourth century Christians begin to dig up the bones of their saints.The veneration of saints and their relics is attested to as early as Polycarp's martyrdom in 156 A
Edited sentence: The cult of saints and their relics, unfamiliar to early Christianity, became widespread in Anglo-Saxon England.The worship of saints and their relics began in fourth-century Rome, when Christians begin to dig up the bones of their saints for worship; this was opposed by the priest Vigilantius, who was opposed in turn by Jerome