LUCA D'ARMENTO, saint. — Also called of Demenna (Sicily), his birthplace, and erroneously of Tauriano. A Basilian monk who lived in the 10th century, he went from Sicily to Calabria near Melicuccà around 960 to escape the Muslim invasion. From there he went to Lucania; he lived for a few years in the monastery of S. Giuliano and then went to Carbone, founded the abbey of SS. Elia and Anastasio, and died on 13 October 993.
BIBL.: P. Menniti, Chronicon Carbonense, ms. Vatican Library; Acta SS. Octobris, VI, Paris 1869, pp. 332–42; D. Martire, Calabria sacra e profana, I, Cosenza 1877, pp. 136–42; G. Robinson, History and Cartulary of the Greek Monastery... of Carbone, in Orientalia Christiana, 15 (1929), pp. 121–275; M. Scaduto, Monachismo basiliano nella Sicilia medievale, Rome 1947, p. xxx. Francesco Russo