St. Luke, Evangelist.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 41, 12 October 1905, Page 31

St. Luke, Evangelist.

St. Luke was a native of Antioch, the capital of Syria, and was by profession a doctor of medicine, for St. Paul calls' him 'his most dear physician. ' H)e was prpibajbly converted at Antioch, in the early days of thie Church, 'and, 'attached "himself to St. Paul, whom he accomipanjied, in his apiostolic journeys. Nor did h« leave that apostle when he was carried prisoner from JeruFtilemi to' Rome, hint remained by his side during Vhe two years of his detection. The Gospel of St. Luke, as was the caset with those of the other Evangelists, was! written) for the instruction of the people to whom ho preached. His laibors were principally cast among the polished inhabitants of Greece and Asia Minor, whom he strove to win to the love of Jesus by the beautiful example of his virtues and the sublime morality of his public teaching. The history of the Acta of the Apostles -was written by St. Luke, like his Gospel, in the Greek language, of which he was a perfect master, and which was the mother tongue of those to whom he preached. It was composed in Rome during the time of St. Paul's first imprisonment, a>tfd was intended to correct the false relations which had been nulblishfid in many places regarddnig- the actions of the Apostles, ami also to make 1-nown more widely the wonderful works of God in the foundation and establishment of His Church.