Enciclopedia Cattolica

LUCA IL TAUMATURGO, SANTO

Luke the Thaumaturge, Saint

Volume VII · p. 962 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

LUCA il TAUMATURGO, santo. - È chiamato pure come L. lo Stilita «L. il giovane», ma in opposizione questa volta a s. Luca di Messina.
LUCA il TAUMATURGO, santo. - È chiamato pure come L. lo Stilita «L. il giovane», ma in opposizione questa volta a s. Luca di Messina.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LUKE the Thaumaturge, saint. — He is also called Luke the Stylite “the Younger,” but this time in contrast to St. Luke of Messina.

A Greek by birth (890), from the island of Aegina, he always led a solitary life on Mount Ioanizza near Corinth, where he was permitted to keep the Holy Eucharist with him. Characteristics of his spirituality were the joy he showed to guests, his veneration for the monastic habit, and his filial attachment to the See of Rome. Seeking an even greater solitude, he finally came to the place Sotérion (Σωτήριον), where he died (c. 946). The Constantinopolitan synaxarion commemorates him on February 7.

BIBL.: Acta SS. Februarii, II, Antwerp 1658, pp. 83-100; Synax. Constantinop., p. 449 ff.; Vita s. Luca Innioris: PG 111, 441-80; E. Martini, *Supplementum ad Acta s. Luca Innioris*, in *Anal. Bolland.*, 13 (1894), pp. 81-121.