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St.
Luke (1st century AD) was not an apostle, or direct disciple of
Jesus Christ, but a close associate of
St. Paul with whom he often traveled. He was a physician, a historian, and a brilliant scholar.
A Greek, his name Loukas means "of
Lucania" (a region in Italy).
He is the attributed author of the third
Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles which he wrote for the
Greek intelligentsia. He was the most literary of the New Testament writers.
  
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