10th August - 10th August- Saint Laurence, Saint Laurence - Independent Catholic News

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Saint Laurence - Independent Catholic News: St Laurence was a deacon who worked closely with Pope Sixtus II. He was martyred a few days after him during the persecutions of the Emperor Valerian. According to the legends, in the three days before he was executed he gave everything he owned to the poor. The prefect of Rome had ordered him to bring him the wealth of the church. Instead he gathered thousands of lepers, blind and sick people, orphans and widows, brought them to the prefect