The Painters' Saint.
Tlhe 18th of October is celebrated in t<he Chiurch as .St Luke s Day, and he is tihe s,aint t»o be invoked by artists. He was educated as a physician, but is said by tjhe early Church writers to have beon aai artist as well as a doctor. Several paintings of the Blessed Virgan are still extant which are believed to be authentic portraits 'painted by him. T/his constitutes him patron of painters, and he is usually represented as painting or writing, behirfd him tihe head of an ox Sometimes winped. ' This strange symttol is given him because he, of all Uhe Gospel writers, wrote most tully of Our Lord's suffering arfd xteaHh, when He was offered as a steariffce for aur sjns. The ox was the symbol of s-aoriffre and an aincient writer jfays of St. Luke that he was represented with the ox ' because that he devysed aUout me presthode of Jeaus the Ohrist.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1905, Page 27
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159The Painters' Saint. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1, 5 January 1905, Page 27
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