Luke

Evangelist and author of the Acts of the Apostles. His Gospel is listed third in the Tridentine canon.

Preliminaries

• DECREES OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT (SESSION IV). — His Gospel listed third; Acts of the Apostles attributed to him

  "according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles written by Luke the Evangelist"

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• II. JEROME TO PAULINUS. — Author of Acts of the Apostles; identified as a physician "whose praise is in the Gospel"; his words are "medicine for the languishing soul"

  "if we know that their author, Luke, is a physician, whose praise is in the Gospel, we will observe equally that all his words are medicine for the languishing soul."