Which Gospel writer’s feast day is on October 18?
St. Luke the Evangelist is venerated each year on October 18. Because of the reference in the Epistle to the Colossians to a person by the name of Luke as “the beloved physician,” (4:14) Saint Luke has been revered as the patron of physicians, surgeons and all associated with health care ministries.
Also, in light of the moving stories of the birth of Jesus in the first chapters of the Gospel of Luke, the name of Luke the Evangelist has also been associated, over the centuries, with several famous ancient icons picturing Mary the Mother of God and her Divine Son, as for example in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. He thus has also become the patron of artists.
