April 25 San Marco. Prayer to the Saint to be recited today

O Glorious St Mark that you were always in a very special honor in the church, not only for the peoples you sanctified, for the gospel you wrote, for the virtues you practice, and for the martyrdom you sustain, but also for the special care who showed God for your body portentously preserved both from the flames to which the idolaters intended it on the day of your death, and from the desecration of the Saracens who became masters of your sepulcher in Alexandria, let us imitate all your virtues.