St. Mark the Evangelist

“But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.”
- Mark 4:34

St. Mark the Evangelist (1^st century C.E.) was not an apostle, or direct disciple of Jesus Christ, but a close associate of the Apostle Peter with whom he traveled to Rome. He is the attributed author of the second Gospel in the New Testament, which he wrote for the Romans.

A Jew, his name is a Roman surname (from the Greek Markos), which means “a large hammer.”