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Icon of Saint Luke of Simferopol with spectacles and surgical instruments.

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Saint Luke of Simferopol AD 1961

Archbishop & Surgeon, Confessor


Commemorated
June 11
Lived
AD 1961

Surgeon, professor, and archbishop of Simferopol, who healed bodies and souls through arrests and exile — a confessor under the Soviet yoke.

Holy Luke of Simferopol, pray to God for us.