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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Taylor Kemp. I'm the director,

and with me is our illustrious chief content officer, Dr. Benakers.

That was kind. Good to see you. Yeah, good to have. Thanks for being here.

Good to be saint. Thank you. Today we are talking about the saint, or on this show, we talk about

the saints. Today we are talking about St. Luke. So, let us begin with the most obvious of questions. Who is St. Luke?

Who is St. Luke? He's the third gospel writer, so the writer of the third gospel, I should say.

So he's an evangelist. He writes the gospel that we call the gospel of St. Luke. And he also is the writer of Acts of the Apostles. So two major books in the New Testament were written by St. Luke.

He's also the only non-Israelite, non-Jewish writer in the New Testament as well.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

So what, yes, what do we know about him?

Yeah, so if we're looking at the scriptures, we're going to go through different passages of

scripture, we can gather the data. And looking at the data, what we discover is that he's from Antioch in Syria.

He is, it's unclear if he was a pagan maybe who converted to Judaism and then to Christianity

or if he was a pagan who directly converted to Christianity.

He's trained in the art of medicine. Paul in Colossians

chapter 4 verse 14 calls him the beloved physician. Okay. It's really beautiful title, the beloved

physician. Like he's, you know, it's great to travel with the doctor. It is. And, uh, which I think is

actually why some, we see mercy, why we see healings in his gospel in a particular way.

Yeah, with some detail.

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