ARCHBISHOP LUKE: SAINT, PASTOR AND SURGEON

The life and work of Saint Luke are here republished in a revised volume with new information, including rare and valuable photographs which have surfaced in recent years and provide us with  a fuller picture of the great modern Saint.

This is a remarkable account of the martyr-figure of St Luke, archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, doctor and professor of topographic anatomy and surgery, a man of unusual talent, spiritually gifted, with a broad scientific training, who ministered to people as both pastor and doctor with exemplary self-sacrifice and love.

The work is dedicated to the doctors who minister with priest-like self-denial to fallen and suffering man, and to the priests who care with a physician’s devotion for the soul and body of suffering but risen man.

‘It has been said very truly that our Church is a laboratory of sanctity. And it is a fact that for centuries it has continued to create saints “at all times and places”, even in our own times when spirituality is so downgraded. Our modern saint, archbishop Luke the doctor,  is just such a supernatural creation of the Orthodox Church …We believe that the life of Saint Luke is a valuable testimony and has much to offer to all the faithful, and particularly to physicians, whether of the soul or of the body.’

From the prologue by His Beatitude Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.