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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Mark (678 words) |
 | Pope Sylvester, Mark was raised to the Roman episcopal chair as his successor. |
| This Mark was evidently a member of the Roman clergy, either priest or first deacon, and is perhaps identical with the pope. |
| As for the bestowal of the pallium, the account cannot be established from sources of the fourth century, since the oldest memorials which show this badge, belong to the fifth and sixth centuries, and the oldest written mention of a pope bestowing the pallium dates from the sixth century (cf. |
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Mark the Evangelist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (801 words) |
| Mark the Evangelist (Greek: Markos) (1st century) is traditionally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark, drawing much of his material from Peter. |
| So the John Mark in Acts (12:12, 25; 15:37) mentioned simply as John in 13:5 and 13:13 and as Mark in 15:39 is the same person as the Mark mentioned by Paul in (Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy, 4:11; Philemon, 24) and by the author of 1 Peter 5:13. |
| Mark's mother was a prominent member of the earliest group of Christians in Jerusalem; it was to her house that Peter turned on his release from prison. |
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