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Luke the Evangelist ( Greek ''Loukas'') is said by tradition to be the author of both the '' Gospel Of Luke '' and the '' Acts Of The Apostles '', the third and fifth books of the New Testament . In Catholicism, he is patron saint of painters, physicians and healers, and his feast day is October 18 . His earliest notice is in claims the following part – the only part preserved in the original Greek – may have been composed in the late 2nd century: :Luke is a Syrian of Antioch , a Syrian by race, a physician by profession. He had become a disciple of the apostles and later followed Paul until his {Link without Title} martyrdom. Having served the Lord continuously, unmarried and without children, filled with the Holy Spirit he died at the age of 84 years. (p.335) Some manuscripts add that Luke died "in Thebes , the capital of Boeotia ". All of these facts support the conclusion that Luke was associated with Paul. Later tradition elaborates on these few facts. . J. Wenham asserts that Luke was "one of the Seventy, the Emmaus Disciple , Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman." Not all scholars are as confident of all of these attributes as Wenham is. , Altar of the Guild of St. Luke, Hermen Rode, Lübeck 1484]] Another Christian tradition states that he was the first Iconographer , and painted pictures of The Virgin Mary ( The Black Madonna Of Częstochowa ) and of Peter and Paul. Thus late medieval Guild s of St Luke in the cities of Flanders, or the '' Accademia Di San Luca '' ("Academy of St Luke") in Rome, imitated in many other European cities during the 16th century, gathered together and protected painters. There is no scientific evidence to support the tradition that Luke painted icons of Mary and Jesus, though it was widely believed in earlier centuries, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy. LUKE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS Contemporary scholarship is far more skeptical about Luke's authorship of the Gospel attributed to him, and Acts. Neither work contains the name of its author, although several passages written in the first person plural (known as the ''We Sections''), have traditionally been understood as the eye witness accounts of Luke. Both are also dedicated to one Theophilus , and Acts is clearly meant to be read as a sequel to the Gospel account; no scholar seriously doubts that the same person wrote both works. On the other hand, the earliest manuscript of the Gospel (Papyrus Bodmer XIV/XV = P75), dated circa AD 200, ascribes this work to Luke. Scholars defending Luke's authorship point out that there is no reason for these works to be attributed to such a minor figure if he did not write them, nor is there a tradition attributing this work to another author. SEE ALSO
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