¶ A student chapter of the Catholic Medical Association

Campbell Catholic
Medical Association

We’re medical students at Campbell University who want our faith to shape the kind of physicians we become. We go to Mass together, spend time with Catholic physicians and faculty, and share a lot of meals. You don’t need to be Catholic to come.

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Patron: Saint Luke, physician · feast October 18
Parent: Catholic Medical Association, est. 1932
Meets: Mass on Tuesdays at 5:30 PM in Taylor Hall room 126 on main campus

Two haloed saints in red caps and blue robes bend over a sleeping man in a bare, pale room and fit a new leg in place of his diseased one. — FIG. 1Fra Angelico, *The Healing of Deacon Justinian by Saints Cosmas and Damian*, c. 1438–43. Tempera on panel, from the predella of the San Marco Altarpiece. Museo di San Marco, Florence. In the legend, the twin physicians replace the deacon’s diseased leg while he sleeps. They were remembered for treating the sick without asking payment.

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October 31, 2026

White Mass 2026

By Vijay Stroup

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Our mission, shared with the Catholic Medical Association

Inspiring physicians to imitate Jesus Christ.

This is the mission of the Catholic Medical Association, founded in 1932. As its student chapter at Campbell, we take it as our own while we train.

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¶ Our patron

Saint Luke, physician

Luke was a Greek physician, the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, and a companion of Saint Paul. The Church honors him as the patron saint of physicians.

His feast falls on October 18. Each year around it we drive to Raleigh for the White Mass, where everyone who works in healthcare receives a blessing.

Detail: Saint Luke, in a red robe and cap, looks up from his silverpoint drawing. — DETAIL OF FIG. 2Luke studies the Virgin before he draws. His face is often read as a self-portrait of the painter.

Saint Luke, kneeling in a red robe, draws the Virgin as she nurses the Christ Child in an open room above a river. — FIG. 2Rogier van der Weyden, *Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin*, c. 1435–40. Oil and tempera on panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

¶ On the calendar

Saints who cared for the sick

Upcoming feasts from the Church’s calendar. The list moves forward on its own, and today’s feast is marked in red.

Today · Nov 3Saint Martin de PorresDominican brother who nursed the sick and the poor of Lima.
Nov 4Saint Charles BorromeoArchbishop of Milan who stayed to care for the city through the plague of 1576.
Nov 13Saint Frances Xavier CabriniFounded hospitals for immigrants in New York and Chicago.
Nov 17Saint Elizabeth of HungaryBuilt a hospital at Marburg and worked in it herself.
Feb 3Saint BlaiseBishop and, by tradition, a physician. His feast brings the blessing of throats.

A crowded fifteenth-century hospital hall: a friar washes a wounded man’s leg while physicians and friars tend the patients around him. — FIG. 3Domenico di Bartolo, *The Care of the Sick*, 1440–41. Fresco. Pellegrinaio, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena.

¶ Join us

Come to a meeting

CCMA is open to every medical student at Campbell. We meet for Mass on Tuesdays at 5:30 PM in Taylor Hall room 126 on main campus.

Questions? Write to vgstroup1203@email.campbell.edu or join our GroupMe. Students can also join the national Catholic Medical Association as members.

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