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Luke hailed from Antioch, and was a well-educated physician of Greek descent. He converted sometime after Our Lord’s Ascension, possibly in Tarsus, and soon became a disciple and traveling companion of St. Paul. He attended to Paul during several of the Apostle’s imprisonments, including the last one before Paul’s martyrdom. Ss. Matthew and Mark had already written their Gospels when Luke began to write his own, which he did with the assistance of Paul and first-hand testimony from Our Lord’s disciples, including St. Peter. Some scholars note that Luke may have assisted Peter with his First Epistle, due to similarities of style. Luke also wrote the Acts of the Apostles, documenting many events of which he was himself an eyewitness. Luke preached the faith around much of the Mediterranean, living to old age but eventually meeting his martyrdom in Greece. Most accounts hold that he was hanged or crucified on an olive tree by the pagans. Luke is a patron of doctors and physicians, as well as all Christian artists, since he was an artist himself and wrote the first holy icon of the Blessed Mother. Luke’s symbol as an Evangelist is the ox.
THE birthday [into heaven] of blessed Luke, evangelist, who, after having suffered much for the name of Christ, died in Bithynia, filled with the Holy Ghost. His relics were taken to Constantinople, and thence conveyed to Padua.
At Antioch, St. Asclepiades, bishop, one of the celebrated troop of martyrs who suffered gloriously under Macrinus.
In the diocese of Beauvais, St. Justus, martyr, who, being but a boy, was put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Rictiovarus.
At Neocaesarea, in Pontus, the holy and learned bishop Athenodorus, brother of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, who underwent martyrdom in the persecution of Aurelian.
In Mesopotamia, on the bank of the Euphrates, St. Julian, hermit.
At Rome, the birthday of St. Paul of the Cross, confessor, founder of the Congregation of the Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom Pius IX canonized on account of his remarkable innocence of life and his penitential spirit, assigning the 28th of April as the day of his festival.
At Rome, St. Tryphonia, at one time wife of the Caesar Decius. She was buried in a crypt, near St. Hippolytus.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.