“The night Our Saviour was betrayed and all who were with Him fled, there was one who followed, though he was not with Him in the Garden.  As the soldiers came out on the public road, an obscure young man did what others feared to do – took a few steps in the company of Our Lord.  When the soldiers laid hold of him and pulled the garment from his body, he fled naked into the night.  Whether Mark’s interest for having spot news began that particular night we do not know, but it is very clear that he was a follower of Peter, and from Peter derived most of the information in his Gospel.  It is very fitting that Mark who was so much concerned with details in his reporting, should now be buried in one of the most detailed and beautiful churches of Christendom, St. Mark’s of Venice.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen