Saint
Saint Mark
- Country / origin
- Jerusalem / Rome / Alexandria
- Life
- 1st century
- Feast
- 25 April
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
John Mark, whose mother's house in Jerusalem was a meeting place for the first Christians. He travelled with Paul and Barnabas, and later was with Peter in Rome. Tradition attributes to him the shortest Gospel and the founding of the Church of Alexandria.
In Scripture: Acts of the Apostles 12:121 Peter 5:13
Biblical profile: Mark →Patron of
- Venice
- notaries and lawyers
When to ask for intercession
- to start again after failing
- to tell the Gospel simply
- for writers
A short prayer
Saint Mark, intercede for me, that I may tell the Good News of Jesus simply and with courage.
Written for cento53 as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Tradition holds
That he wrote the Gospel of Mark from Peter's preaching comes from early tradition (Papias); his relics have been venerated in Venice since the 9th century.
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