Luke
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Feast Day: October 18
Patron Saint of: artists, brewers, butchers, doctors, glassworkers, painters, physicians, surgeons
Luke is symbolically portrayed as an animal of sacrifice, the ox, because he begins his Gospel with the history of Zachary, the priest offering sacrifice to God, and because throughout his Gospel he accentuates the universal priesthood of Christ.
