Luke

Saint Luke, a venerable monk, was, according to the Greek Menaion, Luke the Sicilian, who struggled at Corinth. He was born at Taormina in Sicily and was devout from his childhood. From his labour he gave to the poor and many times kept vigil by the beds of sick people who had no family. His parents wished to marry him, but he refused, saying that he did not despise marriage, but that there are many services to one's neighbour which an unmarried person can perform more easily.

Later he became a monk and struggled in a place on Etna. He then travelled to Constantinople, where so many treasures of the Church were, and in the end was drawn to Corinth, where he taught and built up souls by his devout homilies and fatherly counsels. There also the peaceful death of the righteous found him. He is remembered on 6 November, by the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).