Saint Luke the Apostle
![[Saint Luke the Apostle]](saintl06.jpg "28kb jpg detail from the painting 'Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Herculan, Saint Luke, & the Apostle Jacob the Elder' by Bartolommeo Caporali, tempera & oil on panel, The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg; please do not write to ask about the image")
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- 18 October
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- Born to pagan Greek parents, and possibly a slave.
One of the earliest converts.
Physician, studying in Antioch and Tarsus.
Probably travelled as a ship's doctor; many charitable societies of physicians are named for him.
Legend has that he was also a painter who may have done portraits of Jesus and Mary, but none have ever been correctly or definitively attributed to him; this story, and the inspiration his Gospel has always given artists, led to his patronage of them.
He met Saint Paul at Troas, and evangelized Greece and Rome with him, being there for the shipwreck and other perils of the voyage to Rome, and stayed in Rome for Paul's two years of in prison.
Wrote the Gospel According to Luke, much of which was based on the teachings and writings of Paul, interviews with early Christians, and his own experiences.
Wrote a history of the early Church in the Acts of the Apostles.
Martyr.
- Born
- at Antioch
- Died
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c.74 in Greece
some stories say he was martyred, others that he died of natural causes
relics at Padua, Italy
- Name Meaning
- bringer of light (= luke)
- Patronage
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artists
bachelors
bookbinders
brewers
butchers
Capena, Italy
doctors
glass makers
glassworkers
gold workers
goldsmiths
Hermersdorf, Germany
lacemakers
lace workers
notaries
painters
physicians
sculptors
stained glass workers
surgeons
unmarried men
- Prayers
- Prayer to...
- Representation
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physicians
bishop
book
brush (refers to the tradition that he was a painters)
man accompanied by a winged ox
man painting an icon of Blessed Virgin Mary
ox
palette (refers to the tradition that he was a painters)
winged calf
winged ox
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- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by C Aherene
Christian Biographies, by James Keifer
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
Encyclopedia Brittanica
Google Directory
Lives of Illustrious Men, by Saint Jerome
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Relics of Saint Luke the Evangelist Found in Padua
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
- Writings
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Canonical Gospel According to Luke
Canonical Acts of the Apostles
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