Feast day: October 18

Patron of:

• artists
• bachelors
• bookbinders
• brewers
• butchers
• doctors
• glass makers
• glassworkers
• glaziers
• gold workers
• goldsmiths
• lacemakers
• lace workers
• notaries
• painters
• physicians
• sculptors
• stained glass workers
• surgeons
• unmarried men
• Worshipful Company of Butchers
• Worshipful Company of Painters

Saint Luke was born to pagan Greek parents and was one of the earliest converts to Christianity. A physician, he studied in Antioch and Tarsus. According to legend he was also a painter who did portraits of Jesus and Mary. He was a traveling companion of Saint Paul the Apostle, and evangelized Greece and Rome with him. He stayed in Rome for Paul‘s two years of  prison. Author of the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. His Gospel emphasizes the sacrifice of Christ and so he is most frequently associated with a sacrificial bull as one of his attributes.