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SUMMARY:Saint Mark
DESCRIPTION:Saint Mark\nSaint of the Day for April 25\n(? – c. April 25\, 68)\nhttps://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SODApr25.mp3\nSaint Mark’s Story\nMost of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. When St. Peter escaped from prison\, he went to the home of Mark’s mother. \nPaul and Barnabas took him along on the first missionary journey\, but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It is evident\, from Paul’s refusal to let Mark accompany him on the second journey despite Barnabas’s insistence\, that Mark had displeased Paul. Because Paul later asks Mark to visit him in prison\, we may assume the trouble did not last long. \nThe oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels\, the Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus’s rejection by humanity while being God’s triumphant envoy. Probably written for gentile converts in Rome—after the death of Peter and Paul sometime between A.D. 60 and 70—Mark’s Gospel is the gradual manifestation of a “scandal”: a crucified Messiah. \nEvidently a friend of Mark–calling him “my son”–Peter is only one of this Gospel‘s sources\, others being the Church in Jerusalem (Jewish roots)\, and the Church at Antioch (largely gentile). \nLike another Gospel writer Luke\, Mark was not one of the 12 apostles. We cannot be certain whether he knew Jesus personally. Some scholars feel that the evangelist is speaking of himself when describing the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane: “Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They seized him\, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked” (Mark 14:51-52). \nOthers hold Mark to be the first bishop of Alexandria\, Egypt. Venice\, famous for the Piazza San Marco\, claims Mark as its patron saint; the large basilica there is believed to contain his remains. \nA winged lion is Mark’s symbol. The lion derives from Mark’s description of John the Baptist as a “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Mark 1:3)\, which artists compared to a roaring lion. The wings come from the application of Ezekiel’s vision of four winged creatures to the evangelists. \n\nReflection\nMark fulfilled in his life what every Christian is called to do: proclaim to all people the Good News that is the source of salvation. In particular\, Mark’s way was by writing. Others may proclaim the Good News by music\, drama\, poetry\, or by teaching children around a family table. \n\nSaint Mark is the Patron Saint of:\nNotaries
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