Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français') (BHL 5276) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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Life of Saint Mark, the evangelist. According to tradition, he accompanied the apostle Paul and Barnabas on their first Missionary Journey to Antioch, but halfway the trip he turned back to Jerusalem. For this reason Paul would have him no longer included on his second missionary journey to Asia Minor which he undertook together with Silas. Mark, on the other hand, went to Cyprus in the company of Barnabas. The collaboration between Paul and Mark resumed some time afterwards in Rome. There he also made the second gospel about the year 63-64, which was widespread among the townspeople in order to converse the whole city. Later, a few years after the ascension of Christ, Mark travelled to Alexandria where he founded the Coptic Church. He became bishop of the city and preached in the area around. Eventually Mark was martyred about AD 75. Reportedly, his relics were stolen from its resting-place in Alexandria around 829 by Venetian merchants and shipped to Venice where the majestic Basilica of San Marco was built to honor him.

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 401 (fragment)

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