Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first 'Passionaire français' I,3) (BHL 4975) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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Biography of the evangelist St. Luke (+ about 70). He was originally a physician of Antioch, who became a disciple of St. Paul. Together they continued the missionary work of Jesus. Both ventured the crossing from Caesarea to Rome but were heavily shipwrecked. They preached in several cities like Philippi. However, in order to reinforce the spoken word Luke wrote the third Gospel and the ‘Acts of the Apostles’. Furthermore Lucas also witnessed the first and second imprisonment of Paul in Rome. After Paul's death, he took the remaining task to proclaim the faith. This brought him to Achaia and Bithynia. Nevertheless, he found herein such strong opposition that he eventually died through torture. According to legend this happened somewhere in Boeotia.

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 404 (fragment)

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina BHL 4975
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 180-189
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 528-529