A biography of Luke, based on scripture and tradition.

1. Saint
Luke,
author
of Gospel
and Acts

2. Saint Luke is
the author
of the third
gospel and
the Acts of
the Apostles

3. The earliest manuscript of the Gospel
(Papyrus 75 = Papyrus Bodmer XIV-
XV), dated c. AD 200, ascribes the work
to Luke; as did Irenaeus writing c. AD
180, and the Muratorian fragment, a
7th-century Latin manuscript thought
to be copied and translated from a
Greek manuscript as old as AD 170

4. A summary
of Luke and
his gospel

5. Epiphanius states that Luke was one
of the Seventy Apostles (Panarion 51.11),

6. John Chrysostom
indicates at one
point that the
"brother" Paul
mentions in the
Second Epistle to
the Corinthians 8:18
is either Luke
or Barnabas
(Homily 18 on
Second Corinthians
on 2 Corinthians 8:18).

7. His earliest mention is in Philemon 1:24.

8. It is believed that Luke was born a Greek and a Gentile. In Colossians 10-14 Paul
speaks of those friends who are with him. He first mentions all those "of the
circumcision" -- in other words, Jews -- and he does not include Luke in this group.

9. 2 Timothy 4:11

10. Luke's gospel
shows special
sensitivity to
evangelizing
Gentiles.
It is only in
his gospel that
we hear the
parable of
the Good
Samaritan

11. that we hear Jesus praising the faith of Gentiles
such as the widow of Zarephath (with the prophet Elijah)

12. and Naaman the Syrian (Lk.4:25-27),
Who was cured of his leprosy by the prophet Elisha

13. and that we hear the story of the one grateful
leper who was a Samaritan (Lk.17:11-19).

14. According to
the early Church
historian Eusebius
Luke was born
at Antioch
in Syria

15. Luke may have
been born a slave.
It was not
uncommon for
families to educate
slaves in medicine
so that they would
have a resident
family physician.
Not only do we
have Paul's word,
but Eusebius,
Saint Jerome, Saint
Irenaeus and Caius,
a second-century
writer, all refer to
Luke as a physician

16. We have to go to Acts to follow the trail of Luke's Christian ministry. We know nothing
about his conversion but looking at the language of Acts we can see where he joined
Saint Paul. The story of the Acts is written in the third person, as an historian recording
facts, up until the sixteenth chapter. - He repeatedly uses the word "we" in describing the
Pauline missions in Acts of the Apostles, indicating that he was personally there at those times

17. In Acts 16:8-9 we hear of Paul's company "So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and
saying, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us.' " Then suddenly in 16:10 "they" becomes "we":
"When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being
convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them."

18. So Luke first joined Paul's company at Troas at about the year 51 and accompanied him
into Macedonia where they traveled first to Samothrace, Neapolis, and finally Philippi.

19. Luke then switches back to the third person which seems to indicate
he was not thrown into prison with Paul and that when Paul left
Philippi, Luke stayed behind to encourage the Church there.

20. Seven years passed before Paul returned to the area on his third missionary journey. In Acts
20:5, the switch to "we" tells us that Luke has left Philippi to rejoin Paul in Troas in 58 where
they first met up. They traveled together through Miletus, Tyre, Caesarea, to Jerusalem.

21. Luke is the loyal comrade who stays with Paul when he is imprisoned in Rome about
the year 61: "Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers" (Philemon 24).

22. And after everyone else deserts Paul in his final imprisonment and sufferings, it is
Luke who remains with Paul to the end: "Only Luke is with me" (2 Timothy 4:11).

23. Luke's inspiration and information for his Gospel and Acts
came from his close association with Paul and his companions
as he explains in his introduction to the Gospel – (Lk 1,1-3)

24. Luke's unique perspective on Jesus can be seen in the six miracles
and eighteen parables not found in the other gospels.

25. Luke's is the
gospel of the
poor and of
social justice.
He is the one
who tells the
story of Lazarus
and the Rich
Man (Dives) who
ignored him.

26. Luke is the one who uses "Blessed are the poor" instead of
"Blessed are the poor in spirit" in the beatitudes.

27. Only in Luke's gospel do we hear Mary 's Magnificat where she proclaims that God
"has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has
filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty" (Luke 1:52-53)

28. Luke also has a special connection with the women
in Jesus' life, especially Mary. It is only in Luke's
gospel that we hear the story of the Annunciation,

29. Mary's visit to Elizabeth
including the Magnificat,
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and
to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be forever. Amen.

30. the
Presentation
of the child
Jesus in the
temple ,

31. and the story of Jesus' disappearance in Jerusalem.

32. It is Luke that we have to thank for the Scriptural parts
of the Hail Mary: "Hail Mary full of grace" spoken at the
Annunciation and "Blessed are you and blessed is the
Fruit of your womb Jesus" spoken by her cousin Elizabeth

33. Forgiveness and God's mercy to sinners is also of first
importance to Luke. Only in Luke do we hear the story of
the Prodigal Son welcomed back by the overjoyed father.

34. Only in Luke do we
hear the story of the
forgiven woman
disrupting the feast
by washing Jesus'
feet with her tears.
Throughout Luke's
gospel, Jesus takes
the side of the sinner
who wants to return
to God's mercy

35. There is an
eastern
tradition that
claims the
second disciple
on the road to
Emmaus, along
with Cleopas,
was Luke.

36. The reports of Luke's life after Paul's death are conflicting. Some early
writers claim he was martyred, others say he lived a long life. Some say
he preached in Greece, others in Gaul. The earliest tradition we have says
that he died at 84 Boeotia after settling in Greece to write his Gospel

37. According to
Nikephoros
Kallistos
Xanthopoulos,
Greek historian of
the 14th century
(and others),
Luke's tomb
was located in
Thebes, Greece,
whence his relics
were transferred
to Constantinople
in the year 357

38. The
translation
of the relics
of St Luke
to the
cathedral in
Constantinople

39. Relics
Despot George of Serbia
purportedly bought the
relics from the Ottoman
sultan Murad II for
30,000 gold coins.
After the Ottoman conquest
of Bosnia, the kingdom's
last queen, George's
granddaughter Mary, who
had brought the relics with
her from Serbia as her dowry,
sold them to the
Venetian Republic
Doge of Venice
Francisco Donato

40. a rib, at
his tomb
in Thebes

41. The body, in the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua;

42. The head, in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague;

43. There is a strong artistic
tradition of representing Luke
as a painter of the Virgin

44. A tradition that Luke
was a painter seems to
have no basis in fact.
Several images of Mary
appeared in later
centuries claiming
him as a painter.
Because of this
tradition, however, he
is considered a patron
of painters of pictures
and is often portrayed
as painting pictures
of Mary

45. India claims to still have one of the
Theotokos icons that Saint Luke painted
and which Saint Thomas brought to India
The Church of Our Lady of Expectations
in the St Thomas Mount near Chennai

46. Luke and the
Madonna,
Altar of the
Guild of Saint
Luke, Hermen
Rode, Lübeck
(1484)

47. He is often shown with an ox or a calf because these are the
symbols of sacrifice -- the sacrifice Jesus made for all the world.

48. Luke is the patron of physicians
and surgeons, artists, bachelors,
students and butchers.

49. The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Luke
22 April – Feast of Apostles of the Seventy: Nathaniel (Nathanael), Luke the Evangelist,
Clement of Sardice or Clement of Rome and Apelles of Heraklion (Greek sources say that
Saint Luke (Loukias) was someone other than the Evangelist Luke), the commoration is
held second time commemorated together on September 10.
20 June – Translation of the relics and garments of the Apostles Luke, Andrew, and Thomas,
the Prophet Eliseus, and Martyr Lazarus of Persia found c. 960, during the time of the
emperor Romanos Lakapenos (919–44) in a monastery of Saint Augusta into the Church
of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople under Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus
(c. 956–70) by Saint Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople (956–70).
10 September – Feast of Apostles of the Seventy: Nathaniel (Nathanael), Luke the
Evangelist, Clement of Sardice or Clement of Rome and Apelles of Heraklion
(Greek sources say that Saint Luke (Loukias) was someone other than the Evangelist Luke),
the commemoration is held first time commemorated together on April 22.
18 October – Feast of Apostle Luke
4 January – Synaxis of the Seventy
Apostles
Synaxis of All Saints of Achaia –
moveable holiday on Sunday
between 23 and 29 November
Synaxis of All Saints of Boeotia –
moveable holiday on Saturday
between 25 and 31 May

50. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 20-9-2022
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
All Souls Day
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Conscience
Christ is Alive
Fatima, History of the Apparitiions
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Freedom
Grace and Justification
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Human Community
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Kingdom of Christ
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Life in Christ
Love and Marriage 12,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Mary – Doctrine and dogmas
Mary in the bible
Martyrs of Korea
Martyrs of North America and Canada
Medjugore Santuario Mariano
Merit and Holiness
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Moral Law
Morality of Human Acts
Passions
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in Hungary, Slovaquia
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Passions
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Bruno, fuunder of the Carthusians
Saint Faustina Kowalska and thee divine mercy
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James, apostle
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint Joseph
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Mary Magdalen
Saint Mark, evangelist
Saint Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Saint Martin of Tours
Sain Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Saints Nazario and Celso
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint Jean Baptiste MarieaVianney, Curé of Ars
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcuta
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Saing Peter Claver
Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of John Baptis
Signs of hope
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
The Chursh, Mother and Teacher
Valentine
Vocation to Beatitude
Virgin of Guadalupe – Apparitions
Virgin of the Pillar and Hispaniic feast day
Virgin of Sheshan, China
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WMoFamilies Rome 2022 – festval of families
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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51. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-6-2022
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Conciencia
Cristo Vive
Dia de todos los difuntos
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Encuentro Mundial de Familias Roma 2022 – festival de las familias
Espíritu Santo
Fatima – Historia de las apariciones
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
La Iglesia, Madre y Maestra
La Comunidad Humana
La Vida en Cristo
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Ley Moral
Libertad
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
María y la Biblia
Martires de Corea
Martires de Nor America y Canada
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Moralidad de actos humanos
Pasiones
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Hugaría e Eslovaquia
Queridas Amazoznia 1,2,3,4
El Reino de Cristo
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1, 2, 3
Santa Agata, virgen y martir
San Alberto Magno
San Antonio de Padua
San Bruno, fundador del Cartujo
San Francisco de Asis 1,2,3,4
San Francisco de Sales
Santa Faustina Kowalska, y la divina misericordia
Santa Maria Goretti
Santa María Magdalena
Santa Teresa de Lisieux
San Marco, evangelista
San Ignacio de Loyola
San José, obrero, marido, padre
San Juan Ma Vianney, Curé de’Ars
San Juan Crisostom
San Juan de la Cruz
San Juan N. Neumann, obispo de Philadelphia
San Mateo, Apóstol y Evangelista
San Martin de Tours
San Mateo, Apostol y Evangelista
San Maximiliano Kolbe
Santa Teresa de Calcuta
Santos Marta, Maria, y Lazaro
San Nazario e Celso
San Padre Pio de Pietralcina
San Patricio e Irlanda
San Pedro Claver
San Roberto Belarmino
Santiago Apóstol
Santos Zacarias e Isabel, padres de Juan Bautista
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vida en Cristo
Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexico
Virgen de Pilar – fiesta de la hispanidad
Virgen de Sheshan, China
Virtud
Vocación a la bienaventuranza
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Vocación a evangelizar
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