and pierced through his hand very severely,
but the holy man healed him immediately,
and inclined him to baptism, and many others with him.
This same shoemaker was called Anianus,
and he throve so in godliness that the Evangelist set him
over the people as bishop of the city.
Then he consecrated also three mass-priests,
and seven deacons, and eleven clerks.
Then the heathen laid snares, desiring to entrap him,
because he had changed their wonted customs,
and utterly extinguished the offerings of their gods.
Then the Evangelist departed from the city
to the faithful whom he had before taught,
and there continued about two years with them,
and strengthened the brethren whom he had before converted to God,
and there consecrated bishops and holy priests,
and journeyed back again to the city of Alexandria,
and found there many multiplied in the faith,
and thriving in God's grace, and he thanked God for this.
They had also erected a church in haste,
and the faith waxed, and God's glory shone.
Then Mark, wrought many miracles;
in the Saviour's name he healed impotent men,
blind and deaf, and preached the faith,
and the heathen sought how they might slay him.
Then came the holy Eastertide, and the heathen sought
where the Evangelist was saying mass, and magnifying his Lord,
