Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Theodorus Schermann, ed., Prophetarum vitae fabulosae: Indices apostolorum discipulorumque Domini, Dorotheo, Epiphanio, Hippolyto aliisque vindicata (Lipsiae [Leipzig]: in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1907), 116.

Entry for Mark (first paragraph):

Mark the Evangelist and first bishop of Alexandria preached the Gospel of the Lord to the Alexandrians and to the whole surrounding region, from Egypt as far as the Pentapolis. In the reign of Trajan, in Alexandria, he was seized by the neck and dragged from the places called ‘the Boukoloi’ to the place called ‘the Angels’; there he was burned by the idol-worshippers on the 30th day of Pharmouthi, and there he was buried in the Boukoloi.

A second version of the same notice (next paragraph) says:

Mark the Evangelist, after preaching the Gospel of the Lord to the Alexandrians and to all the surrounding region as far as the Pentapolis, is buried in Alexandria in the Boukoloi, together with Iktaros, the protomartyr ‘in Lycos,’ whom Alexander denounced and killed—where all the bishops lie.



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