St. Luke was born at Antioch, Syria. He was a physician and a Gentile, skilled in the Greek language. After his conversion to Christianity, he became a follower of St. Paul. St. Luke is the inspired writer of the Third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He was instructed in the Christian Faith not only by the Apostle Paul but by other apostles as well. Therefore he wrote his Gospel from what he had heard; but he compiled the Acts of the Apostles from what he had seen himself. He is the evangelist, who had proclaimed the Holy Infancy of the Savior of Humankind through his poetry and art.
St. Luke accompanied St. Paul on his second and third missionary journeys, and when St. Paul was sent to Rome as a prisoner from Jerusalem in the year 61, St. Luke attended him.
After the martyrdom of St. Paul, St. Luke is said to have preached in Italy, Gaul, Dalmatia and Macedon. He is venerated as a Martyr, and as having suffered near Achaia in Greece. His relics were distributed among many churches. St. Luke was never married and lived to be eighty-four years old.
The feast of St. Luke is celebrated on October 18.
(Condensed from “Heavenly Friends”, by Rosalie Marie Levy, printed in U.S.A. by the Daughters of St. Paul).
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