Today, 25 April, is the feast of ...
Mark, evangelist (74): The city of Venice claims to possess the body of St
Mark which is supposed to have been brought there from Alexandria early in
the ninth century. Mark's emblem the lion, like the emblems of the other
evangelists, is a very early tradition. Already in the time of Augustine
and Jerome, the four living creatures of the Apocalypse were held to be
typical of the evangelists.
Anianus, bishop of Alexandria (first century): According to the so-called
"Acts of Mark" Anianus, the second bishop of Alexandria had been a
shoemaker who seriously wounded his hand with an awl. His hand was healed
by Mark the evangelist.
Heribald, bishop of Auxerre (857): An ancient Gallican martyrology relates
that the light of Heribald's virtues, although hidden for long time in a
monastic cell, afterwards spread its rays over the whole of Gaul.
Carolyn Muessig
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