Apostle Luke

Apostle

Spomen januar 4 · april 22 · jun 20 · oktobar 18

The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle and Evangelist Luke is the author of the Gospel of Luke , the companion of the Apostle Paul ( Phil 1:24, 2 Tim 4:10-11), and is numbered among the Seventy Apostles . He was a native of Syrian Antioch and a physician, and is the founder of iconography .
His emblem is the calf, the third symbolical beast mentioned by Ezekiel (1:10), which is a symbol of Christ 's sacrificial and priestly office, as pointed out by St. Irenaeus . His feast days are celebrated on October 18 ; on April 22 with Apostles Nathaniel and Clement ; on June 20 on which day his relics , among others, were translated to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople; and on January 4 , the synaxis of the Seventy.

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