Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of captives, led by Mark the Evangelist (feast day April 25).
12 — 68 · Feast day: April 25
Author of the earliest Gospel, Mark worked as Peter's interpreter in Rome, shaping Peter's eyewitness preaching into the swift, action-driven narrative that Matthew and Luke would later expand. He founded the Church in Alexandria and became its first bishop before being martyred there around AD 68, dragged through the streets during a pagan festival.
200 — 268 · Feast day: December 26
A pope of the late third century who rebuilt the Roman Church after the Valerian persecution. He reorganized the city's parishes, ransomed Christian captives from Cappadocia at his own expense, and intervened in a theological dispute with Dionysius of Alexandria, insisting that the three divine persons must not be so sharply distinguished as to collapse into tritheism.