Feast 25 April
Evangelist. The lion. Peter’s interpreter in the old memory.
Sacred art
The portrait kept with St. Mark is the image this library has of Mark. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.
The shortest Gospel, the most breathless. Venice took his bones. Alexandria claims his chair.
If it belongs to Mark, it is here, with a door back into the story.
The Sea of GalileeThe Gospel
The boat is filling. The disciples wake Jesus. He rebukes the wind, and there is a dead calm. They ask who this is, that wind and water obey him.
The country of the GerasenesThe Gospel
A man who lived among the tombs, unbound by chains, meets Jesus and is found afterwards clothed and in his right mind. The town asks Jesus to leave. The man is sent home to tell what the Lord has done.
