Feast Day: March 23rd


The Life of Saint Luke: There near a Spiritual Father he Confessed his sin and with tears in his eyes, he was told to go to the Holy Mountain…

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Prayers

Apolytikion – Tone 4: You were trained beforehand in Asceticism on Athos, and trampled upon the arrows of the enemy, and put on the Cross as armour, O most-blessed one, heading towards the struggle, enduring manfully, and put to death those who war against the Faith. O Righteous Martyr Luke, by the sword you were noetically Crowned with dual garlands.


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As soon as he arrived on Mytilene, Luke felt his heart overflow with joy, and the desire for Martyrdom grew in him at every step at the thought of that glorious battle fought a short time before by the Holy Martyr Theodore.


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