St. Laurence Holy Card (127148)

Holy card featuring the image along with a bio for St. Laurence.

Saint Laurence was one of the seven deacons who served the Church in Rome in the second half of the third century. Three days after the martyrdom of Pope St. Sixtus whom he had served faithfully, Laurence was apprehended by the Roman prefect who demanded from him the treasures of the Church. Laurence gathered the poor of Rome and presented them as the Riches of the Church. This so infuriated the prefect that he ordered that Laurence be roasted alive on a gridiron. In the midst of his torture he cheerfully admonished: “Let my body be turned; one side is broiled enough”.

Few martyrs have been venerated to intensity or universally as Saint Laurence who Feast occurs on August 10. He is the patron of cooks.