Luke of Cappadocia

Saint Luke of Cappadocia was the third holy abbot, from the year 975, of the monastery of the Saviour called "Deep Rivers", near Constantinople, in the gulf of Kyphe. The Azbyka page says he died at the end of the tenth century and that the monastery was famed for the particularly strict ascetic life of its brethren.

The first holy abbot was the Venerable Basil, who died at the beginning of the ninth century and is commemorated by the Greek Church on 1 July. The second was the Venerable Ignatius (about 963-975), commemorated on 27 September.

The memory of Luke falls on 20 September, in the new style.