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Definition of Laurentius
1. Noun. Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258).
Category relationships: Christian Religion, Christianity
Generic synonyms: Martyr, Saint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laurentius
Literary usage of Laurentius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Councils and ecclesiastical documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland by William Stubbs, David Wilkins (1873)
"Letter of Laurentius Archbishop of Canterbury respecting Easter, ... -294),
connects Laurentius also in the closest possible connection with the with the ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"The first preachers of the new opinions were Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Olaf
and Lars Petersson, b. 1497 and 1499), the sons of a blacksmith at Orebro, ..."
3. Publications by English Historical Society (1841)
"... Syin- machus videlicet atque Laurentius. Et cura inde magna dissensio ...
sed post annos tres accusatus est Symmachus, et Laurentius revocatus. ..."
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