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==Monasticism==

As a child Luke tried twice to leave home to seek a solitary life of prayer. The first time, he attempted to withdraw to Thessaly, but was captured by soldiers lying in wait for escaped slaves and was returned home.<ref>''Life'', ch. 8.</ref> The second time he had more success, meeting two monks journeying from Rome to Jerusalem<ref>''Life'', ch. 9.</ref> who took him to a monastery in Athens where he received the [[w:Degrees_of_Eastern_Orthodox_monasticism#Stavrophore|small habit]].<ref>''Life'', ch. 10.</ref><ref group="note">Little Schema, or Stavrophore Monk (lit. 'Cross-bearing Monk').</ref> At this point he was only fourteen years old (910 AD), and Luke's mother who was very concerned for him, prayed for her son's return. After seeing his mother in a dream, tearfully calling for her son, the abbot sent him home.

==Hosios Loukas==

Eventually Luke's disciples persuaded him to leave, and he returned to the mainland and settled for the remainder of his life in the far more amenable environment of the present [[w:Hosios Loukas|Hosios Loukas]], where he founded his hermitage ca. 946 AD in the area of Stiris (''which may be a corruption of Soterion, or place of healing'').<ref name=DISTOMO>[http://www.distomo.gr/english/osios_loukas_en.htm ΟΣΙΟΣ ΛΟΥΚΑΣ - HOSIOS LOUKAS].</ref><ref group="note">Midway between [[w:Distomo|Distomo]] (ancient Ambryssos) and the monastery of [[w:Hosios Loukas|Osios Loukas]], lies the [http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca&q=distomo&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl village of Stiri], which is named after, but does not occupy, the site of ancient Stiris. (Jeremy McInerney. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=IbNyCyYmq4cC&dq=%22ancient+stiris%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis].'' University of Texas Press, 1999. p.317.)</ref>