Holy Day July 15th
Son of the Bishop of Pontus, Saint Marcion was born 85 A.D. in the city of Sinope on the southern coast of the Black Sea and in his early life commanded a large fleet of merchant ships.
Among his many achievements is the compilation of the first Christian bible in 144 A.D. which contained the Gospel of the Lord/Evangelion (the revelation received by the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus in 34 A.D.) and the original ten epistles (Apostolikon). To achieve this, Marcion and his fleet retraced the routes of Paul's journeys throughout the Roman Empire and revisited all of the Pre-Nicene churches he established, collecting Paul's gospel and letters which he transcribed and put into codex (book) format for the first time in 144 A.D. That same year the Marcionite Church was formed with the first Christian bible as its bedrock of faith and it grow to become the largest Christian denomination in the Roman Empire at its peak.
This would be the first and only bible used by Christians until 382 A.D. when the (now) Roman Catholic Church would print its own version of a bible using edited portions of the Evangelion and adding various Hebrew Torah books - renaming them to the 'Old Testament.'
▶️ View a documentary on the life of St. Marcion
📰 Read the latest academic paper on Marcion in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies
📖 Acquire the ebook based on the paper: The Archivist, Not the Heretic: Marcion, Scriptural Proof, and the False Charges of Docetism, Ditheism, and Gnosticism
