Saint Mark the Evangelist
St Mark the Evangelist Happy Feastday Mark was not one of the twelve Apostles, though it's more than likely that hew knew Jesus personally. Ir is interesting that many ecclesiastical writers see a sort of hidden signature of Mark in his Gospel, in the recounting of the young man present at the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane , who "followed Him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked" Maybe it's significant that only Mark mentions this incident. Mark was, from an early age part of the group of first Christians who were close to Our Lady and the Apostles and would have known them well. He was with Paul and Barnabas on their first apostolic journey, though for some reason left them to go back t