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Sermon on the feast day of St Luke the Evangelist (Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios)

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On October 18th, our Church honors the distinguished figure of St. Luke the Evangelist. He was a Greek from the Great city of Antioch in Syria (today’s Antakya). It was here that he studied medicine, in a city that was renowned for the development of science, philosophy and learning. The worldly glory of a medical practice did not attract him, and he was drawn to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. When the great Apostle, during his Second Apostolic Tour, departed from Troas to Macedonia, St. Luke was there and followed him. From then on he became a valuable companion to St. Paul. The Holy Apostle assigned him to various missions to establish the Christian faith in different countries, ...

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