A copy of a letter by Clement of Alexandria discovered in 1958 references a gospel then preserved by the Alexandrian church. Clement describes this gospel as an expansion of the canonical Gospel of Mark, which purports to secret teachings by Mark himself. Clement’s letter gives a handful of brief excerpts of where “Secret Mark” expands the text of Mark as we have it, and one longer quotation. This expands on the story of the youth who flees without his garment during Jesus’ betrayal and arrest at Gethsemane (told in Mark 14:51-52). In secret Mark, this youth is identified as a disciple whom Jesus loved whom he raised from the dead at Bethany — seemingly drawing on the same tradition as the Lazarus story found in the Gospel of John, but absent in canonical Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Scholars are divided over whether Secret Mark existed, and if it did, whether it was a later Gnostic expansion of canonical Mark, or if it possibly represented an earlier version of Mark than what we now possess. John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will examine what is known about “Secret Mark,” including theories that the purported letter by Clement is itself a modern forgery. He will also look at the broader context of lost gospels known only through limited quotations or tiny surviving manuscript fragments.