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 General Description:

This is a reproduction of a 16th century icon of St. Luke, who preached the Gospel in Thebes, Rome, to the Colossians, to the Corinthians, in Lybia, and Egypt, writing his Gospel 15 years after Christ's Ascension.

This reproduction print is mounted on a wood plank, in the traditional style of the Christian East.

St. Luke

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 10/18 Patron Of: Artists, Bachelors, Bookbinders, Brewers, Butchers, Doctors, Glass Industry, Goldsmiths, Jewelers, Lace Makers, Notaries, Painters, Physicians, Sculptors, Surgeons Profile 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 c.74 in Greece; some stories say he was martyred, others not; relics at Padua, Italy All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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