Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

St. Marcus. Anybody have info or a link?

  • 17-04-2013 3:46pm
    #1
    time lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone provide any links or info on this saint. Think he was African. Any help appreciated. Big confirmation name debate here:)


Comments

  • #2
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,998 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Marcus is the Latin version of the name "Mark". There are a couple of saints of that name, but the best-known is, of course, the evangelist of that name.

    English-speakers - particularly in the US, for some reason - occasionally use "Saint Marcus" to distinguish Pope St. Mark from his better-known namesake. This St. Mark was a fourth-century pope about whom comparatively little is known. He was pope for only about 10 months before he died, but he had probably been a senior cleric in Rome for quite a while before that. Tradition says that he was a Roman, and that his father's name was Priscus.

    There's also Mark the Hermit, or Marcus Eremita, a Christian ascetic writer of the fifth century. We know little about him; he lived in Syria/modern Turkey, and we have no reason to think he was African.

    Both of these guys have Wikipedia pages, and the pages contain external links to other sources.


Advertisement