ARCHBISHOP LUKAS

ARCHBISHOP LUKAS

A SAINT SHEPHERD AND SURGEON

Foreword: Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Ieronymos

The life and work of Saint Luke are re-released in a renewed volume, with new elements as well as precious-rare photographic material, which has come to the surface in recent years and shows more fully the great form of the modern Saint.

A shocking crucifixion of the figure of Saint Luke, archbishop of Simferoupolis and Crimea, the physician, professor of topographical anatomy and surgery.

A man of rare talents and spiritual gifts, with amazing scientific training, he ministered to man as a shepherd and doctor, with admirable self-denial and love.

A work dedicated to the doctors who serve with holy self-sacrifice the suffering - dying man and to the priests who take care of the soul and body of the suffering but unrepentant man with medical devotion.

"It has been rightly said that our Church is a laboratory of holiness. And indeed, for centuries now he has not stopped creating saints "in every time and place". Even in our current anti-spiritual age. Such an excessive creation of our Orthodox Church is also our modern -day Archbishop Luke, Doctor ... We believe that the life of St. so of the bodies».

From the foreword of His Beatitude Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Mr. Hieronymou