St. Luke the Evangelist

Patron Saint of Doctors, Painters, and Sculptors

Luke was not a Jew but a Gentile, and thought to have been a Greco-Syrian, probably born in Antioch.

Though one of the four Gospel writers – known as the Evangelists – he was not one of Christ's Twelve Apostles.

Whether he converted to Christianity from Judaism or paganism is not certain.

He was a disciple and companion of the Apostle Paul who mentions that he was also a medical man, “Luke, the most dear physician” and he probably helped St. Paul with his much-tried health. Luke was certainly with the great apostle in his first two imprisonments in Rome.

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