At 15:15 10/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> From: CA Muessig [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>>
>> Laurence, martyr (258): One of the seven deacons who served the Roman
>> church. Martyred during the Emperor Valerian's reign. Valerian had
>> Laurence bound upon an iron bed and slowly roasted him to death.
>> According to the legends, Laurence's face appeared to be surrounded
>> with a beautiful light, and his body gave off a sweet smell. Having
>> suffered a long time, he turned to the judge and said with a cheerful
>> smile: "Let my body be turned, one side is broiled enough." When the
>> execution turned him, he said: "It is cooked enough, you may eat."
Such is the legend; modern scholars however believe he was beheaded, like
his master Pope Sixtus. Both are commemorated in the Roman Canon.
Ampleforth has a splendid relic of Lawrence, his upper arm-bone or humerus,
which I was admiring on Sunday. Perhaps Fr Anselm can tell us if there have
been any tests on it to determine the cause of death. Any evidence of
carbonisation?
Oriens.
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