Saint Lorenzo and Saint Lawrence

It is believed St. Lorenzo was born in Huesca, Spain on December 26, 235 (the bed coer day of St. Stephen). His p arents, St Orencio and St. Paciencia, became martyrs of the church in 246, during the Christian Persecutions. Lorenzo escaped the Persecutions with other family members and moved to Italy where he became a student of an evangelist, who later became pontiff Sixtus II. Lorenzo was ordained a deacon of capital of Italy by Sixtus and was entrusted with the exchequer of the Holy chalice which was believed to postulate been used by rescuer and the Apostles at the Last Supper.\nIn 258, Valerian, the Prefect of Rome, published his demands against Rome. The new St. pope Sixtus II was taken pris adeptr, and as he was led to his execution, his deacon Lorenzo asked, Father, where do you go without your deacon? Sixtus answered, I do not leave you; you will get married me in ternion days. by and by this, Valerian ordered Lorenzo to turn over the treasures of the Church. Over th e next three days, he distributed the treasury among the concourse and hid many of the Churches sacred articles and relics end-to-end Europe, including Lorenzos Holy Grail. After this, Lorenzo self-collected the poor and sick of Rome and presented them to the Prefect saying, these are the treasures of the Church. Valerian became extremely groundless at seeing such an assembly. Valerian ordered a Brobdingnagian gridiron to be do ready, with hot coals to be piece underneath it and for St. Lorenzo to be burned-out to death upon it. While in the middle of this torture, taunting Valerian, his executioner, Lorenzo said, this office has been cooked enough, turn my body, you may instantly eat.\nIn Rome, the feast of St. Lorenzo is sanction to the feast of St. Peter and St. capital of Minnesota in popularity. There are records of the celebration dating binding to the second decade of the quaternary century, making the observance one of the earliest of the Roman Catholic Church. Pictures of St. Lorenzo can be lay out throughout Rome, including a statue among the images c...