What Saint Luke known for?

Answer 1

I believe that would be Saint Luke. Throughout The Bible you will find people referred to by one name. That is not just a Bibilical practise. In older times and in some Eastern countries you were known by a name and your Father's name. Sometimes they used a place to distinguish who/where they were from. For example, Saul was called Saul of Tarsus. So, Luke is only referred to as Luke. "Saint" or "Apostle" is an office title.

Answer 2

Saint Luke is known for being a physician, disciple, and evangelist who wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Bible. He is also known as the patron saint of artists, physicians, surgeons, and students.

Answer 3

Luke the Evangelist (Loukas), the early Christian leader who the Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. All we really know about him is that he was a physician and he wrote two books of the New Testament. Luke was a Greek convert to Christianity and it is thought he had been a gentile and not a Jew and was a disciple of St. Paul. He is thought to have died about the year 74 AD at the age of 84 or natural causes.

Answer 4

St. Luke was a Greek convert to Christianity who was the author of one of the 4 gospels as well as the Acts of the Apostles. He is the patron saint of artists, physicians, surgeons and a number of other causes..

Answer 5

He was the patron saint of artists, physicians, and sugeons.

Answer 6

St Luke wrote two books in the Bible: Luke and Acts. He also accompanied Paul on Missionary Journeys and he remained with Paul when every one else abandoned Paul.

Answer 7

Luke the Evangelist