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written in the tradition. When he arrived, he found that the church had grown and flourished, and was met with a big reception from the Christians. The Jews and the pagans were angry and sought to kill him, and finally he was martyred the following day, in 68 AD. Although this theory is not supported by definitive evidence, it is more plausible than any of the others. It takes into account all the evidence available about St. Mark and essentially fits the pieces together. Whether this or any of the other theories is correct is relatively unimportant, since none of them can be supported by definitive evidence. The bottom line is that in historical debates like these when there is seemingly no way to prove the arguments one way or the other, tradition takes precedence and prevails over everything else. Bibliography: Abdelsayed, Hani. "The Story of St. Mark." In St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter V.1, No. 4, July 1995, pp. 6-7. Contains Coptic text and translation of portions of John of Shmun work on St. Mark. Bauer, W., Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Trans. and ed. R. A. Kraft et al. Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1977. Donaldson, James. "Constitution of the Holy Apostles" In The Ante-Nicene Fathers , Volume VII. Ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co. 1978 (Reprint), pp. 385-505. Evetts, B. T. A., ed. "History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria I" In Patrologia Orientalis Volume 1, pp.105-211. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1907.

Gibson, Rev. Edgar C. S. "The Works of John Cassian." In Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church , Second Series, Volume XI. Ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co. 1978 (Reprint), pp. 161-621. Klijn, A. F. J., "Jewish Christianity in Egypt." In The Roots of Egyptian Christianity. Ed. Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring. Phila- delphia: Fortress Press, 1986, pp. 161-175. McGiffert, Rev. Arthur Cushman. "The Church History of Eusebius." In Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church , Second Series, Volume I. Ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co. 1978 (Reprint), pp. 1-403. Partrick, Rev. T. Hall. Traditional Egyptian Christianity - A History of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Greesboro: Fisher Park Press 1996. Pearson, Birger A., "Earliest Christianity in Egypt." In The Roots of Egyptian Christianity. Ed. Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986, pp. 132- 160. Riddle, M. B. "Introductory Notice to the Pseudo- Clementine Literature" In The Ante-Nicene Fathers , Volume VIII. Ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co. 1978 (Reprint), pp. 69-71. Roberts, C. H. Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979. Smith, Rev. Thomas et al. "The Clementine Homiles" In The Ante-Nicene Fathers , Volume VIII. Ed. Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publ. Co. 1978 (Reprint), pp. 223-346.

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