• Maureen Grant

St Mark The Evangelist – the second of the four evangelists.   Mark is mentioned by name six times in the Acts of the Apostles(Acts 12:12; Acts 12:25; Acts 13:5; Acts 13:13; Acts 15:37, and Acts 15:39),once in each of three letters of Saint Paul(Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:11; and Philemon 1:24), and once in the first epistle of Saint Peter (1 Peter 5:13). 

Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History, credits Mark with transcribing the sermons of Saint Peter, from which the evangelist then drew the material that forms the Gospel of Mark.