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Then as Mark the Evangelist, he wrote the account of the works of Jesus—the Gospel of Deeds—as confided to him by Peter the Apostle. His mother was one of the most devoted of the women disciples, and Mark remembered when, as a boy, Jesus celebrated the Last Supper in the Upper Room. He was raised an [[Essene]] and, being well-educated, was chosen Peter’s chief disciple and secretary and was taken to Antioch to assist [[Saint Paul|Paul]]. He became an exponent of the deeper mysteries of Christianity and founded the Church at Alexandria, where he was later martyred.