Luke (Evangelist)
Luke the Evangelist or St. Luke ( Bishop : Loukas) was a companion of the Apostle Paul. He practiced medicine (Col 4:14) and he followed Paul on his first trips to Macedonia and then into his detention in Rome (2Ti 4:11).
It is considered the author of the Third Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Acts of the Apostles.
Feast: Oct. 18.
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The author of the third Gospel and Acts who was not named, is the continuity between the two books provided by their dedication to one official, the most excellent Theophilus, who, with the unity of style and Writing has to consider that the same author has undertaken their publication in Greek. This author, broke with the practice of literary Greek and Hellenistic culture, did not know at least very closely the Jewish religion and the subtleties of the law of a rabbinical point of view. Through narratives "we" (Acts 16.10-17; 20.5 to 21.18; 27.1 to 28.16) he included himself as a witness and actor of the facts stated from birth to the community of Antioch in Syria (cf. Acts 11:27 as the text says West). The tradition has concluded that it was from this town to see him as one of the first to have converted pagans. This assumption is still prevalent, occult, however, other pieces of information but not least:
- Two "We" are already in the prologue of the Gospel written before the Acts.
- Loukas, the name of the companion of Paul is a diminutive of Loukios. Now Paul was a relative of that name (R 16:21), while a Loukios, a native of Cyrene, was a disciple of the community of Antioch in Syria with Symeon Niger, Barnabas and Paul (Acts 13:1 ). Nothing prevents us to see Loukas and two Loukios a single character, cousin and companion of Paul, a faithful friend until the trip to Rome and valuable doctor during his detention. But because a verse from the Epistle to the Colossians does not count among the employees who approved circumcised Paul (Col 4:11), this identification is ruled out since antiquity. However, a refined exegesis of the Epistle to the Colossians and the Acts of the Apostles, can see that others disapproved of Paul in his last pilgrimage to Jerusalem where he risked being arrested, among them Timothy who had been circumcised by Paul himself and even Luke, the latter could therefore also "be of circumcision" and Paul's parents.
This point established, it remains of other outstanding issues: Paul hardly ever given in his letters a quote from the Gospel, which is hardly explained if Luke was at his side. However there are 2 Cor 8:18 a direct allusion to this book and its author, although his name has been kept strangely anonymous. Conversely, nothing in the teachings of Paul is reflected in the third Gospel as if theology of redemption developed by the Apostle had not reached. What explains this apparent impermeability of one relative to another, as they found themselves welded in situations of great uncertainty? The idea spread that the author of the gospel was written well after the fact and had used the travel diaries of a companion of Paul to write the records. But this assumption is fraught with contradictions difficult to overcome:
- In the prologue of his gospel he promised to deliver a written chronologically correct and without fraud. Would he have left these "we" that tended to suggest that it was the part when he was not? It would have been lying on the very sources of its information and assume the honor and prestige of heroism and a witness who returned to another. Was it acceptable for writing the New Testament?
- Epiphanius regarded as one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus and an oral tradition, received and sent by Gregory the Great saw that disciple who remained anonymous, on leaving Jerusalem with Cleopas on the evening of the Resurrection, were joined by Jesus.
These problems could be solved in order to separate the work of the editor of the translator, for it is certain, as regards the Gospels written in Greek, Hebrew substrate that is its foundation. The editor could have been a disciple of Jesus and his translator, in this case Luke, a disciple of the Apostles.
Hagiography
The act ends abruptly without one knows what happened to Paul still held in Rome, the reader concludes that Luke died before him. However, according to Epiphanius (Haer. 51), death of Paul, Luke would have returned to evangelize in Macedonia. Living a monastic life, he died at the age of 84. According to other sources, he experienced the martyrdom ( crucifixion ). In the fourth century his body was transferred from Patras to the Church of the Apostles in Constantinople, which gave rise to the dispersion and the veneration of holy relics of many (like his head blown off by St Gregory to Rome) and in addition several icons of the Virgin were considered to have been painted by St. Luke, because his language practice, law and medicine he added that of painting.
Symbol
Luke is symbolized by the bull , animal sacrifice , because his gospel begins with the evocation of a priest priest serving the Temple of Jerusalem : Zechariah , the father of John the Baptist.
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Writings of Luke talking
Here are some writings of the early centuries speaking of Luke. Jerome felt that concerned about Paul the Evangelist Luke
"We send him the brother whose praise in the Gospel has spread throughout the churches, and more importantly, has been designated by show of hands by the churches to be our companion in this charity, we do to the glory of the Lord himself, and as a token of goodwill. "
- 2 Corinthians 8.18
"As for Luke Antiochian origin and doctor by profession, he was long associated with Paul and he lived more than in passing with the apostles and from them he learned the treatment of souls , as he has left evidence in two books inspired by God , the Gospel shows that have made according to the traditions of those who had been from the beginning the audience and the ministers of the word and he says he followed them from the beginning, and the Acts of the Apostles he wrote not after having heard them, but after seeing his eyes. "
- Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea , wrote the fourth century
"Luc is actually a Syrian of Antioch , doctor by profession. Subsequently he followed Paul until his martyrdom. Serving the Lord blameless, he had neither wife nor children, and died at eighty-four years in Boeotia , full of the Holy Spirit. Although the Gospels existed, that Matthew was composed in Judea, and that of Mark in Italy he was inspired by the Holy Spirit, and wrote this gospel entirely in a region near Achaia, he makes clear in the prologue than others (Gospels) were written before his Catholic Tradition
Luke 
Luke, sculpture Johann Dominikus Mahlknecht, Church of St. Ulrich (Val Gardena, Italy)evangelist Birth unknown Deaths Unknown (circa 84 years) Day October 18 Patron saint doctors and painters Servant of God Venerable Happy St. Saint Luke the Evangelist is celebrated on October 18.
In the Catholic tradition Luke is considered the patron saint :
- Medical and health services, because of his profession,
- painters and sculptors, it is for this reason that many Academies of Fine Arts and the guilds of artists called or were called "Saint-Luc. In Christian tradition, St. Luke has represented several times in painting Virgin. Although their dates are more recent periods, a number of icons assigned to it devoutly. These are the so-called blank Vladimir , of Jerusalem , of Tikhvin of Smolensk , of Czestochowa. They are mostly style Hodigitria , lit. "Showing the way."
See also
- Gospel according to Luke
- List of Apostles
- List of Catholic saints
- List of saints of the Orthodox Church
External Links
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