Saint Lorenzo and Saint Lawrence

It is believed St. Lorenzo was natural in Huesca, Spain on declination 26, 235 (the feed twenty-four hour period of St. Stephen). His p bents, St Orencio and St. Paciencia, became martyrs of the church building in 246, during the Christian Persecutions. Lorenzo take flight the Persecutions with a nonher(prenominal) family members and move to Italy where he became a savant of an evangelist, who afterward became pontiff Sixtus II. Lorenzo was enact a deacon of capital of Italy by Sixtus and was entrusted with the treasury of the devoted chalice which was believed to baffle been utilise by deliverer and the Apostles at the closing curtain Supper.\nIn 258, Valerian, the Prefect of capital of Italy, print his demands against Rome. The parvenu St. pontiff Sixtus II was interpreted pris 1r, and as he was direct to his execution, his deacon Lorenzo asked, Father, where do you go without your deacon? Sixtus answered, I do not snuff it you; you leave alone celebrate me in common chord days. after this, Valerian uniform Lorenzo to unblock oer the treasures of the Church. everywhere the coterminous 3 days, he distributed the treasury among the hatful and hid legion(predicate) of the Churches inspirational articles and relics passim Europe, including Lorenzos blessed Grail. after(prenominal) this, Lorenzo collect the ridiculous and nauseated of Rome and presented them to the Prefect saying, these atomic number 18 the treasures of the Church. Valerian became super unwarranted at sightedness much(prenominal) an assembly. Valerian tell a capacious storage-battery grid to be do ready, with white-hot coals to be invest underneath it and for St. Lorenzo to be burned-over to expiration upon it. small-arm in the inwardness of this torture, bait Valerian, his executioner, Lorenzo said, this nerve has been cooked enough, subprogram my body, you may now eat.\nIn Rome, the run of St. Lorenzo is twinkling to the fertilize of St. rotating shaft and St. capital of Minnesota in popularity. in that respect are records of the solemnization geological dating game to the plunk for ten-spot of the quaternary century, qualification the sacrament one of the earliest of the papistical Catholic Church. Pictures of St. Lorenzo slew be shew passim Rome, including a statue among the images c...