According to legend, this man was executed by being tied to horses and dragged through the street, and other stories relate how he cut off his own thumb and how his body was once wrapped in pork to prevent Muslims from touchi
According to legend, this man was executed by being tied to horses and dragged through the street, and other stories relate how he cut off his own thumb and how his body was once wrapped in pork to prevent Muslims from touching it. This man baptized the Egyptian cobbler Anianus, whom he later anointed as a bishop and as his own successor. This man is mentioned by Papias of Hierapolis as a scribe to St. Peter and in Philemon 24 he is recorded sending his greetings to the Christians of Colossae. This man, who declared St. James a "son of thunder", was a cousin of St. Barnabas, with whom he accompanied St. Paul on some of his travels. In art, this patron saint of lawyers is depicted with a lion. This man's body was stolen from Alexandria and taken to Venice, whose patron saint he remains. For ten points, name this man who wrote a gospel and is not Matthew, Luke, or John.
According to legend, this man was executed by being tied to horses and dragged through the street, and other stories relate how he cut off his own thumb and how his body was once wrapped in pork to prevent Muslims from touching it.
St. {Mark} the Evangelist