St. Mark And The Lion

- The lion's event led the artists to insert a lion in all of St. Mark's pictures. (Read more about The lion's event :( St. Mark The Apostle and miracle of lion and lioness ).
- It is possible also that because of the beginning of his Gospel, he described a roar of a lion, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness." Or because that his Gospel represented Lord Christ in His Majesty and His Kingdom, as He was " The lion of the tribe of Judea."
- Always it is referred to the four Evangelists, as the four beasts, mentioned in the Book of the Revelation, [4 : 7],The lion symbolized St. Mark the first among them.
- We noticed that the people of Venice, took St. Mark as their Patron and intercessor, and adopted the lion as a symbol. They have a big statue for a winged lion in St. Mark Square in their city.
- The artists competed trying to show a tame lion with St. Mark as he extracted its cruelty and kept for it its courage.

References:
THE BEHOLDER OF GOD MARK THE EVANGELIST SAINT AND MARTYR - BY: H.H. POPE SHENOUDA III.

Mina Kamel