Commemorating the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke Oct. 31/1

 

The symbol of the apostle is a winged calf holding the Gospel. In the iconographic tradition, which gave the holy Evangelists symbols borrowed from the vision of St. John the Theologian (Rev. 4:7), St. Luke the Evangelist began to be associated with the calf - since the apostle pays special attention to the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, and the calf was often used as a sacrificial animal. Saint Apostle Luke is the patron saint of missionaries and catechists, doctors, artists and icon painters.