Saint Lawrence of Rome, the Martyr

Saint Lawrance was a Chirstian perist in Rome, when Chirstianity was a young, sercet and illegely religon

He was asked to bring the treasures of the Church by the heads of Rome. Lawrance gather all the Gold and jewelery in the temple and gave them to the poor.

After three day Lawrance was called to court to show the Heads the teasures. Lawrance came with the poor, the sick and the disabled, he said that these people were the ture teasures of the chruch, and that they should by protected. The Heads of Rome were outraged and sentenced Lawrance to be Martyred, were he was placed upon a grill and buried alive, this was a common form of exaquition in early days of Chirstianity.

Today the Martyr grill is commonly assoiated with Saint Lawrance of Rome