St. Mark
Born: unknown
Died: c.74
Canonized: pre-Congregation
Feast Day: April 25
Patron Saint of: lawyers, notaries, prisoners
Mark is symbolically portrayed as a lion because his Gospel begins with the
history of John the Baptist, the voice crying from the wilderness, and he
accents the miraculous powers of Jesus.
Most scholars believe that Mark's Gospel was the first of the four to be
written. Mark was probably not a disciple of Jesus, but was a disciple of Saint
Peter some time after Jesus' Death and Resurrection, so the writings of Mark's
Gospel are most influenced by the accounts of Saint Peter.
