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Mar 22, 2024 · St. Luke (flourished 1st century ce; feast day October 18) was, in Christian tradition, the author of the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, a companion of St. Paul the Apostle, and the most literary of the New Testament writers. Information about his life is scanty.
- E. Earle Ellis
Gospel of Luke and Acts. Luke the Evangelist [a] is one of the Four Evangelists —the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Prominent figures in early Christianity such as Jerome and Eusebius later reaffirmed his ...
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- Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles
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Mar 29, 2019 · He died at the age of 84 years” (Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, emphasis added). In his own writings, Luke often uses common medical terminology to describe illnesses and afflictions.
The reports of Luke's life after Paul's death are conflicting. Some early writers claim he was martyred, others say he lived a long life. Some say he preached in Greece, others in Gaul. The earliest tradition we have says that he died at 84 Boeotia after settling in Greece to write his Gospel.
Jun 25, 2019 · When Did Luke the Evangelist Live? Assuming that all of the major references to Luke are about the same person and that this person wrote the gospel according to Luke, he would have lived slightly later than the time of Jesus, probably dying some time after 100 CE.
St. Luke is always represented by the calf or ox, the sacrificial animal, because his Gospel begins with the account of Zachary, the priest, the father of John the Baptist. He is called a painter by Nicephorus Callistus (fourteenth century), and by the Menology of Basil II, A.D. 980.
Feb 3, 2023 · He is the patron saint of medics, physicians, surgeons, students, butchers, and artists. He was born in Antioch, Syria, in the first century AD and died in Thebes, Greece in the same century. He was canonized as a saint in the fifth century.
