Friday, October 18 is Saint Luke’s Day!
Said Mass will be at 9AM.
Not this Luke….
This Luke….
Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists or authors of canonical Gospels of Jesus Christ. The early church fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel according to Luke and the book of Acts of the Apostles, which may originally have been formed as a single literary work.
In the New Testament, Luke is mentioned briefly a few times, and referred to as a doctor in the Pauline epistle to the Colossians; thus he is thought to have been both a physician and a disciple of Paul.
Traditions vary on Luke’s death. The earliest traditions hold that he died a natural death at the age of 84 in Boeotia. Gregory of Nazianzus wrote that Luke was martyred. Saint Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists, physicians, surgeons, students and butchers. His feast day is 18 October.