Luke wrote his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles at Rome in obedience to Paul, dedicating the Acts to Theophilus, the Governor of Achaia, who was a convert. He accompanied Paul to Rome and describes their difficult and eventful voyage at the end of the Acts of the Apostles (chapters 27-28). When Paul was arrested in Jerusalem and transferred to Caesarea, Luke remained with him. They went together to the Holy City, strengthening the Churches on their way. Luke remained in Macedonia for some years and, when Paul visited Philippi again during his third journey (AD 58), he sent him to Corinth to receive the collection made by the faithful there for the needs of the poor at Jerusalem. He went with the Apostle in his journeys from Troas to Philippi, where Paul left him to nurture the newly born Church. Without hesitation, he gave up all that he had and his profession in physical medicine to follow Paul and become the beloved physician (Colossians 4:14) of souls. The Apostle’s fiery words convinced him of he Truth that he had vainly sought in the wisdom of this world for so many years. It was, therefore, at Antioch where he met Saint Paul in the course of his second missionary journey and accompanied him thence to proclaim salvation in Greece.īut another tradition says that Luke did not know the Lord during His earthly sojourn, and that he met Saint Paul while working as a physician at Thebes in Boeotia during the reign of Claudius (c. Some say that on his way back to Antioch he stopped to preach the Good News at Sebaste in Samaria, where he obtained the relic of the right hand of the Holy Forerunner, which he took as a precious trophy to his own city. After the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, Luke remained for a time in Jerusalem where there were already disciples. But sadness was turned into unspeakable joy when Christ, whom they were unable to recognize when He joined them on the way, revealed to them in the breaking of bread that He was really and truly risen ( Luke 24:35). Luke was in Jerusalem at the time of the life-giving Passion and, on Easter morning, walked with Cleopas (October 30) towards the village of Emmaus, distraught at the loss of the Master. There is a tradition that Luke was one of the Seventy Disciples that the Lord Jesus Christ sent before Him, two by two, to announce salvation in the towns and villages. The Gospel he wrote shows his excellent command of Greek he also knew Hebrew and Aramaic. He traveled all over the world to quench his thirst for knowledge, and had particular skill as a physician and in painting. From his youth he applied himself to seek after wisdom and to study the arts and sciences. Saint Luke came from the city of Antioch, probably of a pagan family. The Life of t he Apostle and Evangelist Luke- Celebrated on October 18
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