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Luke of Homs
deacon and martyr
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 6 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Homs in Syria, the commemoration of Saint Silvanus, bishop, who, after leading that Church for forty years, was at last, under the Emperor Maximinus, thrown to the wild beasts together with the deacon Luke and the reader Mucius, and received the palm of martyrdom.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 6 February as a deacon thrown to the wild beasts at Homs with his bishop Saint Silvanus.
Sources
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.