LUITPRAND, or LIUTPRAND, 920-72; b. Italy; chancellor of Berenger II., in whose service he went to Constantinople on a diplomatic mission. IIaving fallen into disfavor with Berenger, he took refuge with the emperor Otho I., who made him bishop of Cre mona. He was for a second time ambassador to Constantinople (968-71), and gives an account of his embassy in his Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana. He also wrote the history of Otho's reign for the years 960-64, the IIistoria Otlumis; and the Antapodosis, containing the history of Europe from the death of Charles the fat to about 950.
LUXE (Lucas), the author of one of the gospels and of the Acts of the Apostles, was b., according to the accounts of the church fathers, at Antioch in Syria, and is said to have been a physician. He was probably by descent a Hellenistic Jew. We learn from Scripture that he was the associate of Paul in his second evangelistic expedition (52 A.D.); but that is al; we know; whatever else is asserted concerning him is doubtful. That he
-was a painter is one of the things for which tradition vouches; and in the church of St. John Lateran at Rome a picture of our Savior is shown which is ascribed to Luke, but is believed to be a work of the 13th century. The churches of Padua, Venice, and Rome also possess many pretended relics of this evangelist. His festival is conrnem °rated by the Roman Catholic church on Oct. 18.—The gospel of St. Luke, addressed to a certain Theophilus, is generally believed to have been written before the destruction of Jerusalem. Renan, however, in his Yie de Jesus (1863), considers its composition sub sequent to that event. The time and place of its origin are unknown. See Schleier macher's Die Schrsyten des Luke (Berlin, 1817). The apocryphal writings ascribed to Luke are Acta Pauli; Baptismus Leonis; and Liturgics XII. Apostolorum.