25 April
AT Alexandria, the birthday of blessed Mark, evangelist, disciple and interpreter of the apostle St. Peter. He wrote his gospel at the request of the faithful of Rome, and taking it with him, proceeded to Egypt and founded a church at Alexandria, where he was the first to announce Christ. Afterwards, being arrested for the faith, he was bound, dragged over stones and endured great afflictions. Finally he was confined to prison, where, being comforted by the visit of an angel, and even by an apparition of our Lord himself, he was called to the heavenly kingdom in the eighth year of the reign of Nero.— At Rome, the great Litanies in the church of St. Peter.—At Syracuse, the holy martyrs Evodius, Hermogenes, and Callistus.—At Antioch, St. Stephen, bishop and martyr, who suffered much from the heretics opposed to the Council of Chalcedon, and was precipitated into the river Orontes, in the time of the emperor Zeno.—In the same city, the Saints Philo and Agathopodes, deacons.—At Alexandria, the bishop St. Anian, disciple of blessed Mark, and his successor in the episcopate. With a great renown for virtue, he rested in the Lord.—At Lobbes, the birthday of St. Erminus, bishop and confessor.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
Thanks be to God.