Not known.
How carbonised is the bone in your dinner joint?
(Assatum est: jam versa, et manduca)
a.c.
Ampleforth Abbey, York
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 11 August 1999 11:01
Subject: RE: FEAST 10 August
>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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