Focus on Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice and analyze the Subject.
Saint Mark spent most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. His body was brought to Venice eight centuries after his death in 68 AD. Venice's ruling class wanted St. Mark as the patron saint for their economic status, so they arranged to smuggle his body from Egypt. While stealing the body, the thieves Buono da Malamocco and Rustico da Torcello hid the body under pork and vegetables.  Once they arrived in Venice on January 31, 828, Mark's body was kept in Doge Giustiniano's palace. When the doge died, his widow was ordered to build the Basilica di San Marco to house Mark. Fear that Saint Mark's body would be stolen again continued after the death of the Doge. According to a French monk, Mark's body was safely stored in "one of the great pillars". However, when the chapel of Basilica di San Marco was rebuilt in 1063, Saint Mark's body could not be found. Thirty years after this, it was said that Saint Mark's body re-appeared, with his arm appearing from an old pillar. After re-appearing, Saint Mark's body was finally put in a sculptured coffin below the high alter in the chapel.
Saint Mark Venice