It's been an age since I wrote a post about a Saint from my book of Saints Days.
October the 18th is St Luke's Day and in the books of weather sayings they always mention St. Luke's Little Summer. This is a spell of warmer, dry days that often occur around this time.
I found the picture below on Wiki, it is from a stained glass window at St Mary and St Lambert, Stonham Aspal and added to wiki by Kevin Wailes (who lived in the village)
Below is the illustration from the October 18th page of the Calendar Of Saints book. The description says mosaic in S.Vitale, Ravenna.
St Luke is the patron saint of physicians and artists and wrote his own gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He is thought to have been a doctor and went with St Paul on one of his missionary journeys.
He might have been a Greek Doctor from Antioch or an Hellenic Jew (combining Judaism with Greek Culture).
Luke's gospel has some stories from the life of Jesus that don't appear in the other gospels even though it's known that he didn't witness the work of Jesus himself. In modern times Luke's skill as an historian is questioned.
It's thought he lived until aged 80+ before dying in Greece.
The open book reads secundum Luca. According to Luke. So I suppose it's the gospel according to Luke. It's a lot more readable than the others!
ReplyDeleteThere will be no Little Spring this year. Bring in Everything you don't want frozen to the ground, It will freeze tonight!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting!
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I actually love the Gospel According to Luke. As you say it is a much easier read than the others.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Many scholars think Luke knew Mary, Jesus' mother. It is his gospel which contains the Christmas story which is read each year at Carol Services, with angels, shepherds and "No room at the Inn" etc (but it is Matthew's gospel which has the Magi, with their gold, Frankincense and myrrh)
ReplyDelete80 plus was certainly a very good age back then. x
ReplyDeleteIt has been wonderful weather here until the rain came in and made it damp and cold. But the coming weekend is supposed to be nice again. We need the rain before the freeze and snow come this winter. 80 was ancient in those days.
ReplyDeleteCathy
October has been a month of warm and cool swings in the weather. The 17-18th are quite cool and raining. I did hear the upcoming weekend is to be lovely again.
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