Saint Lawrence of Rome 

Born

at Huesca, Spain

Died

• cooked to death on a gridiron on 10 August 258 in Rome, Italy

• tradition says that the ashes of his burned body were dispersed by the winds, and appear at different places around the world on his feast day

• buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli, Italy

• tomb was later opened by Pelagius to inter the body of Saint Stephen the Martyr

• his mummified head is enshrined at the Quirinal Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome

• other relics and the gridiron believes to have been his deathbed are enshrined in the crypt of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Outside the Walls, Rome

• his garments are enshrined in Our Lady’s Chapel in the Lateran Palace, Rome

Patronage

• against fire

• against lumbago

• archives, archivists

• armories, armourers

• brewers

• butchers

• chefs, cooks

• comedians, comediennes, comics

• confectioners

• cutlers

• deacons

• glaziers

• laundry workers

• librarians, libraries

• paupers, poor people

• restauranteurs

• schoolchildren, students

• seminarians

• stained glass workers

• tanners

• vine growers, vintners, wine makers

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• Ceylon, Sri Lanka

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• 38 cities and dioceses

Representation

• book of Gospels

• cross

• gridiron

• deacon holding a book

• deacon holding a gridiron

• deacon holding a bag of money

• purse of money