Luke the Evangelist Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Relics == Eight bodies and nine heads, located in different places, are presented as the relics of the Apostle Luke.<ref>[[Ludovic Lalanne]]. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Curiositsdestra00lalagoog.pdf&page=138 Curiosités des traditions, des mœurs et des légendes, 1847. / р. 148]</ref><ref>[[Jacques Collin de Plancy|Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy]]. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Dictionnaire_critique_des_reliques_et_des_images_miraculeuses,_T2.pdf&page=141 Dictionnaire critique des reliques et des images miraculeuses, T. 2. 1827 / р. 131]</ref> Despot [[Đurađ Branković|George of Serbia]] purportedly bought the relics from the Ottoman sultan [[Murad II]] for 30,000 gold coins. After the [[Ottoman conquest of Bosnia]], the kingdom's last queen, George's granddaughter [[Mary of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia|Mary]], who had brought the relics with her from Serbia as her dowry, sold them to the [[Venetian Republic]].{{sfn|Fine|1975|p=331}} [[File:Santa Giustina (Padua) - Chapel of Saint Luke - Tomb of Luke the Evangelist (front).jpg|thumb|Reliquary of St. Luke the Evangelist in [[Abbey of Santa Giustina|Padua]]]] In 1992, the then [[Greek Orthodox]] Metropolitan [[Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens|Ieronymos]] of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes and Levathia]] (who subsequently became Archbishop Ieronymos II of [[Athens]] and All Greece) requested from Bishop [[Antonio Mattiazzo]] of Padua the return of "a significant fragment of the relics of St. Luke to be placed on the site where the holy tomb of the Evangelist is located and venerated today". This prompted a scientific investigation of the relics in [[Padua]], and by numerous lines of empirical evidence (archeological analyses of the Tomb in [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] and the Reliquary of [[Padua]], anatomical analyses of the remains, [[carbon-14 dating]], comparison with the purported skull of the Evangelist located in [[Prague]]) confirmed that these were the remains of an individual of Syrian descent who died between AD 72 and AD 416.{{sfn|Marin|Trolese|2003}}{{sfn|Craig|2001}} The [[Diocese of Padua|Bishop of Padua]] then delivered to Metropolitan Ieronymos the rib of Saint Luke that was closest to his heart to be kept at his tomb in Thebes.<ref name=Tornielli />{{sfn|Wade|2001}} Thus, the relics of Saint Luke are divided as follows: * The body, in the [[Abbey of Santa Giustina]] in Padua; * The head, in the [[St. Vitus Cathedral]] in Prague; * A rib, at his tomb in Thebes. {{blockquote|We also collected and typed modern samples from Syria and Greece. By comparison with these population samples, and with samples from Anatolia that were already available in the literature, we could reject the hypothesis that the body belonged to a Greek, rather than a Syrian, individual. However, the probability of an origin in the area of modern Turkey was only insignificantly lower than the probability of a Syrian origin. The genetic evidence is therefore compatible with the possibility that the body comes from Syria, but also with its replacement in Constantinople.<ref name="Vernesi Benedetto Caramelli Secchieri 2001 p.">{{cite journal | last1=Vernesi | first1=Cristiano | last2=Benedetto | first2=Giulietta Di | last3= Caramelli | first3=David | last4= Secchieri | first4=Erica | last5= Simoni | first5=Lucia | last6=Katti | first6=Emile | last7=Malaspina | first7=Patrizia | last8=Novelletto | first8=Andrea | last9=Marin | first9= Vito Terribile Wiel | last10= Barbujani | first10=Guido | title=Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke | journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume=98 | issue=23 | date= 6 November 2001 | pages= 13460–63 | pmid=11606723 | doi= 10.1073/pnas.211540498 | pmc= 60893 | bibcode=2001PNAS...9813460V | doi-access=free}}</ref>|Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page