St Lawrence of Rome (socha svatého Vavrince) - Mimon, Czech Republic - Statues of Religious Figures on Waymarking.com

The statues located at the road winding up to the St Peter and St Paul's Church (kostel sv. Petra a Pavla) in Mimon was placed here in different times. The Baroque statue of The statues located at the road winding up to the St Peter and St Paul's Church (kostel sv. Petra a Pavla) in Mimon was placed here in different times. The Baroque statue of comes from 1750-80. It depict St Lawrence of Rome wearing a dalmatic and holding his typical attributes - a gridiron and a feather.

St. Lawrence Biography

Lawrence of Rome (c. 225 – 258) was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Valerian in 258.
Martyrdom
By tradition, Lawrence was sentenced at San Lorenzo in Miranda, martyred at San Lorenzo in Panisperna, and buried in the Via Tiburtina in the Catacomb of Cyriaca by Hippolytus and Justinus, a presbyter. Tradition holds that Lawrence was burned or "grilled" to death, hence his association with the gridiron. Tradition also holds that Lawrence joked about their cooking him enough to eat while he was burning on the gridiron, hence his patronage of cooks and chefs, stating something along the lines of, "turn me over ... I'm done on this side". One of the early sources for the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence was the description by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in his Peristephanon, Hymn II. However, one longstanding scholarly theory holds that the story of the gridiron arose from a scribe's mistranscription of passus est ("he suffered," that is, was martyred) as assus est ("he was roasted").

Constantine I is said to have built a small oratory in honour of the martyr, which was a station on the itineraries of the graves of the Roman martyrs by the seventh century. Pope Damasus I rebuilt or repaired the church, now known as San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, while the minor basilica of San Lorenzo in Panisperna was built over the place of his martyrdom. The gridiron of the martyrdom was placed Pope Paschal II in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

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Associated Religion(s): Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church Statue Location: at stairs leading to St Peter and St Paul's Church (kostel sv. Petra a Pavla) in Mimoň Entrance Fee: free Artist: unknown Website: Not listed

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