Mark the evangelist
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The magnificent Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice is the adornment of the city and one of the most popular buildings in Italy. Its history is extremely interesting in the light of the new chronology. It appears, that the first evangelist Mark lived in the 12th century, died in its second half and was buried for the first and the last time in St. Mark's Basilica, which was specially erected in his honour. This lavish burial of Mark allegedly in 1094 (most likely circa 1194) with the participation of the Doge, Patriarch and all of the people was later interpreted by the historians as supposedly 'the rediscovery' of his remains 'a millennium later' as Scaligerian chronology has already shifted the time of Mark's life to the 1st century.
There were no mysterious vanishing and miraculous reappearances of Mark's relics 'a thousand years later'. These cunning legends were made up later, when the historians had already started to coordinate Scaligerian chronology with the evidence of the old documents, that pointed to the 1100-1200 as the epoch of Mark the Evangelist's activity.