Mark the Galilean

Saint Mark, hieromartyr, called the Galilean, was bishop of Atina in Italy in the first century, a disciple of the Apostle Peter. He is commemorated on 28 April, and at Atina also on 1 October. He is venerated in the Catholic Church.

He was one of the disciples of the Apostle Peter, made bishop, and set out to preach in Marsica, in Ciociaria and in various districts of Campania. He received the death of a martyr at Atina, in the time of the emperor Domitian, around the year 96. On the place of his burial a church was raised, which in the course of years grew old and fell down, and the saint's body was lost. In the middle of the eleventh century the local bishop Leo found the saint's body in a wonderful way and placed it in the cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the city, while the church dedicated to the saint was being rebuilt.

Sometimes Saint Mark the Galilean is regarded as the same as Saint Mark of Apulia.