Mark the Evangelist
Credited author of the Gospel of Mark and Christian saint; traditionally identified with John Mark (20-68) · Israel · Religious Figures · Lived 12 to 68 · aged 56
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Something wrong?One of the four Gospel authors - though modern scholarship can't settle whether the Mark behind the second Gospel was this Mark, another Mark, or no Mark at all. Church tradition credits him with founding Alexandria's church, one of early Christianity's power centers.
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About this person
Tradition calls him John Mark, a Libyan who traveled in the apostolic circle and set down the earliest written account of Jesus' ministry. That Gospel - terse, urgent, built for oral delivery - became the template Matthew and Luke would later expand. The early church assigned him to Alexandria, where he's said to have established the episcopal see that would anchor Christian thought for centuries. Modern scholars remain split: some dismiss the attribution outright, others argue over which Mark fits the bill, a few hold the traditional line. His feast falls on April 25, his symbol the winged lion - borrowed from Ezekiel's vision, attached to the Gospel that begins in the wilderness.
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