What were the names of St Mark the Evangelist's parents?

Mark or Marcus is mentioned in Paul's epistles and in Acts of the Apostles, where he seems to have been the nephew of Barnabas, and also in 1 Peter 5:13 as the son of Peter - an improbable coincidence. Since 1 Peter is considered to be a pseudepigraphical second-century book, we can discount this as a reliable source of information, in which case we do not really know the parents of Mark.

Although the second-century Church Father Papias attributed one of the gospels to Mark, there is good reason to say that Paul's companion, Mark, was unlikely to have been the real author of the gospel. Because Mark's Gospel was written anonymously and we do not know who the author really was, he still continues to be called 'Mark', as designated by Papias, and is sometimes referred to as Mark the Evangelist. As he remains anonymous, we know nothing at all about this 'Mark'.