Mark

Evangelist. His Gospel is listed second in the Tridentine canon.

Preliminaries

• DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV). — His Gospel listed second

  "according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John"

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Named as one of the four evangelists

  "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- the four-horse chariot of the Lord and the true Cherubim"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — Instituted Christian study of sacred Letters at Alexandria in the apostolic age

  "St. Mark instituted this Christian study of the sacred Letters at Alexandria."