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Mark. Paul, however, difpleafed that lie had formerly 
left them at Perga, would not admit of his> attendance; 
upon which a fharp contention took place between the 
two apoftles, which terminated in their reparation from 
each other; and Mark accompanied Barnabas to Cy¬ 
prus. Afterwards Paul was thoroughly reconciled to 
Mark ; and, when lie was in confinement at Rome, and 
wrote to Timothy to come to him, he defired that he 
would bring Mark with him : for,ifaid he, he is profitable to 
me for the minifiry. 2 Tim. iv. is. That Mark was a com¬ 
panion in the apoftle’s labours at Rome, we learn from 
different expreflions in St. Paul’s Epiftles ; but we are not 
informed how long he continued his attendance on that 
apoftle, and we meet with no further particulars concern¬ 
ing him in the New Te'ft ament. From what is faid by all 
the ancient writers, it feems not improbable, that, going 
from Rome into Alia, he there met with St. Peter, and 
accompanied him till that apoftle came to Rome, where 
he itlfFered martyrdom. It was in this city that he wrote 
the Gofpel which goes by his name. Eufebius, Epipha- 
nius, and St. Jerome, unite in dating, that St. Mark went 
to Egypt, and preached in that country the Gofpel which 
he had compofed at Rome. The father laft mentioned 
fays, that he founded at Alexandria a church of great 
note; and Eufebius, that he planted many churches in 
Egypt. Epiphanius fays, that he was fent into that coun¬ 
try by Peter. If, however, their ftatements, founded on 
tradition, that Mark did actually preach and eftablifh 
churches in Egypt, be true, it is not probable that he 
went to that country before the death of Peter and Paul 
at Rome. Baronius, Cave, and many other ecclefiaftical 
hiftorians, relate, that Mark fuffered martyrdom at Alex¬ 
andria ; but in this account they are not fupported by 
Eufebius, or other more ancient writers; and St. Jerome’s 
manner of expreffion, which fimply mentions that he died 
in the eighth year of Nero, and was buried at Alexan¬ 
dria, feems to imply that he died a natural death. 
With refpeft to the Gofpel of St. Mark, the ancients 
are in general agreed that it was written while that evan- 
gelift attended St. Peter at Rome; and it appears in oft 
probable that it was made public by him foon after the 
death of that apoftle and St. Paul, in the year 64 or 65. 
The fame authorities concur in fpeaking of Mark as the 
interpreter, or amanuenfis, of St. Peter; and in reprefent- 
ing his Gofpel to have been written by the direction and 
instructions of that apoftle, and to contain the particular 
information which he dictated, connected with the fub- 
liance of the difeourfes which Mark heard him deliver. 
Some cf them (late, that, after it was compofed, and be¬ 
fore it was made public, it was fubmitted to Peter’s ap¬ 
probation, who authorized it to be read in the churches. 
This ftatement derives fome degree of probability from 
the circumftance, that many particulars very honourable 
to Peter, which are mentioned by the other evangelifts, 
are omitted in it; which can only be aferibed to the great 
inodefty and humility of that apoftle, who would not fuf- 
fer them to be inferted in a Gofpel recommended by him- 
felf. This Gofpel has improperly been reprefented by 
fome to be an abridgement of the Gofpel of St. Matthew. 
But, though it is much fhorter than that, or any of the 
other gofpels, it contains a number of particulars pecu¬ 
liar to itfeif. A long lift of them has been collected by 
iardner, which fatisfaCtorily fhow that Mark was not an 
epitomifer of another author ; and that he writes as an 
eye-witnefs, or as one who had full and authentic origi¬ 
nal information concerning the things of which he un¬ 
dertook to write a hiftory. St. Mark’s day, in the Chrif- 
tian church, is the 25th of April. 
Canons of St. Mark, a congregation of regular canons 
founds at Mantua, by Albert Spinola, a prieft, towards 
the end of the 12th century. Spinola made a rule for 
t;kem, which was approved, corrected, and confirmed by 
feveral iucceeding popes. About the year 1450 they were 
reformed, and followed only the rule of St. Augultine. 
This congregation; having flourifhed for the /pace of four 
mar 
hundred years, declined by little and little, and is now 
become extinCl. 
Knights of St. Mark, See the article Knighthood, 
vol. xi. p. 791, 
MARK (Pope), a faint in the Roman calendar, is faid 
to have been a native of Rome, who was chofen fucceffor 
to pope Sylvefter in the year 336. We learn nothing cer¬ 
tain, or at leaft worthy of being recorded, concerning his 
life or adminiftration. Platina unaccountably afligns to 
him a pontificate of between two or three years ; while the 
authors of greateft credit, ancient as well as modern, con¬ 
cur in Hating that he died within nine months after hi* 
election. 
MARK, in geography, a citadel of Germany, which 
gives name to a county, purchafed by the counts of Al- 
tena at the beginning of the 13th century : two miles eaft 
of Hamm. 
MARK (County of), a principality of Germany, 
bounded on the north by the coonty of Recklinghaufen, 
and bifhopric of Munfter, on the eaft by the duchy of 
Weftphalia, on the fouth by the duchy of Berg, and on 
the weft by the duchies of Berg and Cleves. This county 
enjoys a fertile foil, with good meadows and arable land, 
which produce wheat, rye, barley, oats, buck-wheat, 
peafe, vetches, lentils, beans, rape, turnip-feed, flax and 
hemp, in fuch plenty, that the neighbouring countries 
are likewife fupplied therewith ; it produces alfo fruits 
and legumes of all kinds. The mountains yield coal, 
iron, lead, copper, and filver, ores; and good quarries of 
ftone. It contains in it upwards of twenty towns, exclu- 
five of one-half of the town of Lippftadt. The inhabit¬ 
ants of this country are partly Roman Catholics, partly 
Proteftants; and all the inhabitants enjoy the free and 
public exercife of their religion, and that too fometimes 
in the fame church. There are many manufactures here, 
the produce of which is not only ufed in the country, 
but alfo plentifully exported; and in particular great 
quantities of iron and fteel are worked here in a variety 
of ways. The ancient counts of Mark received their 
origin from the counts of Altena. Adolphus III. count 
of Altena, who died in the year 1249, firft affumed the ti¬ 
tle and arms of Mark. Adolphus V. count of Mark, was 
likewife count of Cleve. It came with Cleve to the elec¬ 
toral houfe of Brandenburg. The affell'ment was made 
with Cleve. Hamm is the capital. 
MARK (St.) a town of the ifland of Hifpaniola, fitu- 
ated in a bay, on the weft coaft, to which it gives name. 
The chief productions of the neighbourhood are coffee 
and cotton. It is forty-eight miles fouth of Port Paix. 
Lat. 19. 18. N. Ion. 72. 42. W. 
MARK (St.) a feaport town of Eaft Florida, near the 
mouth of a river of the fame name. Lat. 30.10. N. Ion 
84.36. W. 
MARK (St.) a village near Briftol; with fairs the 
Tuefday before Whitfunday, and on the 15th of Sep¬ 
tember. 
MARK BRA'IT. See Brait, vol. iii. p. 345. 
MARK BUR'GEL, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach: thirteen miles north-weft of Anfpach. 
MARK ERL'BACH. See Erlebach, vol. vi. p. 906. 
MARK LEN'KERSHEIM, a town of Germany, in the 
principality of Culmbach; fourteen miles north of An¬ 
fpach. 
MARK MAN'SEE, a town of Auftria; ten miles north 
of St. Wolfgang. 
MARK MASSAREE'N, a town of Syria, in the pa- 
chalic of Aleppo; containing about 150 houfes, and a 
good hum mum. This is generally the halting-place for 
the caravans between Scanderoon and Aleppo. 
MARK OL'DENDORF, a town of Weftphalia, in the 
bifhopric of Hildelheiin : fix miles weft of Eimbeck. 
MARK POU'ND.y. The pound of fixteen ounces. 
MARK SCHEL'KEN, a town of Tranfylvania : four 
miles north of Stoltzenberg. 
MARK-WEI'GHT,/. A foreign weight of 8 ounces. 
l MAR'KAN, 
