{"id":26697,"date":"2011-10-18T05:29:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T09:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-luke-the-evangelist\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:07:31","slug":"saint-luke-the-evangelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-luke-the-evangelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Luke the Evangelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Luke%20VFoppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"St Luke VFoppa.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/St Luke VFoppa-thumb-285x427-10393.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><i>[Saint Luke] told of the power of the Lord, and his praise.<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"> (MP resp.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Saint Luke is known to have brought light to a dark world with the writing of his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. As a disciple of Saint Paul, much of early Christian life that appears in Luke-Acts is due to this connection.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The particulars of his life are fuzzy, at least in this sense: we know he was born into a pagan (that is, unbelieving) family in Antioch and that he was a doctor of some sort and that he&#8217;s reported to have been an early convert to Christianity. His work as a painter, life and death are not well known. We commonly attribute a picture to Luke but certainty doesn&#8217;t exist. Some say he was martyred and others say Luke died of natural causes. The date of death is thought to be around AD 74. Saint Luke&#8217;s relics are venerated in Padua.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Saint Luke&#8217;s feastday is a traditional day to pray for healthcare professionals but also for artists, brewers,goldsmiths and laceworkers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Saint Luke] told of the power of the Lord, and his praise. (MP resp.) Saint Luke is known to have brought light to a dark world with the writing of his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. As a disciple of Saint Paul, much of early Christian life that appears in Luke-Acts is due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/saint-luke-the-evangelist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Luke the Evangelist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28856,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26697\/revisions\/28856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}