Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the feast of St Mark, the writer of the Gospel.

Papias, a disciple of John the Apostle, relates that Mark became the interpreter and secretary for St. Peter,

presumably because Peter did not speak Greek very well,

at least not well enough to be easily understood while preaching abroad.

Mark stood beside Peter and repeated his preaching about the life and teaching of Jesus, and it was Mark who then wrote down accurately

the teaching of Peter, very careful not to omit anything or add anything that was not

related by Peter. In the second century, St. Justin Martyr calls

the Gospel of Mark the Memoirs, the Recollections of Peter. So the Gospel of Mark is really the Gospel of Peter.

And when you read the Gospel of Mark, it's Peter's testimony of his personal friendship with Jesus.

Saint Epiphianus testifies that St. Peter sent Mark to establish the Catholic Church in Alexandria, Egypt, sometime between 53

and 60 AD, where Mark became the first Bishop of Alexandria.

When Mark entered the city, his shoe was torn because of the great distance he had walked.

He went to a cobbler called Anianus to repair it.

And while Anianus was repairing the shoe, the all pierced his finger,

and he cried out in Greek ice thales which means oh one God

When Mark heard these words he rejoiced exceedingly because he has found someone who might be open to hearing about Jesus.

So Mark took some clay, spat on it, applied it to Annie Anis's finger saying, in the name of Jesus Christ,

the one true God, and the wound healed immediately, as if nothing happened.

Now it was Anianis's turn to be exceedingly amazed by this miracle,

one that came about by the name of Jesus, and he begged him to tell him who this was.

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