> If I remember rightly, the frying of St. Lawrence iconogrphy goes back quite a
> ways, at least to a Ravenna mosaic (the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
> http://www.users2.dircon.co.uk/~asm/features/mausolem.htm (slow .uk
> connection)
> http://www.racine.ra.it/RACINE/docs/I/05F5E49B/RAVENNA/galla2uk.htm though,
> here I note that though the grill is warm and waiting to accept him the saint
> himself is not quite ready;
>
Christopher,
That's what they'd like you to believe. My colleague Gillian Mackie,
at the University of Victoria, has recently offered a compelling
case for identifying this saint as Vincent, rather than Lawrence.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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