portraitsofsaints:Happy Feast DaySaint Luke the Evangelist Died: 85Feast day: October 18Patronage:
portraitsofsaints: Happy Feast DaySaint Luke the Evangelist Died: 85Feast day: October 18Patronage: artists, bachelors, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors, glassworkers, goldsmiths, notaries Saint Luke, an early convert of paganism to Christianity was a physician who was born in Antioch, Syria. Luke was a close companion of St. Paul, whom he accompanied in prison on two different occasions. St. Luke is the writer of the third Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles, his account of events is firsthand history. {website} -- source link