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 preserved by Bede of the letter he addressed to the simplicity Mid poverty. He was greatly respected

Celtic biabopB exhortins them to peace and unity with both in Italy and elsewhere by the digmtariea ot both

Rome. The death of King Ethelbert in 616 was (ot- Church and State. He tried to foster the religious

towed by a heathen reaction under his son Eadbald, life by his sennona as welt aa by his writings. The

and under the sons of Scliert who became Idngs of the Diocese of Castello belonged to the Patriarchate of

East Saxons. Saints Mellitus and Justus, bishops of Grado. On 8 October, 1451, Nicholas V united the

the newly-founded Sees of London and Rochester, Seeof Castellowith thePatriarchat«of Grado.and the

took refuge with St. Lawrence at Canterbury and see of the patriarch was transferred to Venice, and

urged him to fiy to Gaul with them. They departed, Lawrence was named the first Patriarch of Venice, and

and he, discouraged by the undoing of St. Augustine's exercised his office till his death somewhat more than

work, was preparing to follow them, when St. Peter four years later. His beatification was ratified by

appeared to him in a vision, blaming him for thinking Clement VII in 1524, and he n'as canonized in 1090 by

en leaving hia flock and inflicting stripes upon him. Alexander VIII. Innocent XII appointed 5 Sep-

In the morning he hastened to the king, exhibiting his wounded boch' and relating his vision. This led to the convetmon of the kinji, to the recall of Saints Mellitus and Justus, and to their persever- ance in their work of evan- gelizing Kent and the neigh- bouring provinces. These events occurred about 617 or 618, and shortly afterwards St. Lawrence died anil was buried near St. Augustine in the north porch of St. Peter's .\bbey church, afterwards known as St. Augustine's. His festival is observed in England on 3 February.

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Edwin Burton.

Lawnnea Jnatlnian, Saint, Biediop and first Pa- triarch of Venice, b. in 1381, and d. 8 January, 1456. He was a descendant of the Giustiniani, a, Venetian

Etrician family which num- red several saints among its members. I.awrencc'g pious mother sowed the seeds of a devout religious life in the boy's youth. In 1400 when he Was about nineteen years old, he en- tered the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. taincd permission to

Augustine on the Island of Alga near Venice. Inspite Giendalough; in that ^ ^

of his youth he excited admiration by his poverty, thirteen years, conspicuous for his piety and learning, mortifications, and fervour in prayer. At that time So great was his reputation in the eyes of the com- the convent was changed into a congregation of secu- munitv that on the death of Alil>ot Dunlaing, early in lar canons living in community. After his ordination 1154, he was unanimously called to preside over the in 1406 Lawrence was chosen prior of the community, Abbey of St.Kevm. Dermot, King of Leinster, mar-' and shortly after that general of tho congregation, ried Mor, sister of St, Lawrence, and, though his char- He gave them their constitution, and was so zealous in acter has been painted in dark colours by the native spreading the same that he Was looked upon as the annalists, he was a great friend lo the Church. He

tember for the celebration of his feast. The saint's ascetical writings have often been published, first in Brescia in 1506, later la Paris in 1524, and in Basle in 1660, etc. We are in- debted to his nephew, Ber- nardo Giusliniani, for his biography. BehnarddsJcbtiniancb, ,pput-

tini^i (Venice? 1574",'"s"iuS!!

De n'fu aairforum. ed. 1618, I.

12a-3£: Ada SS., Jani KTy I.

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J. P. KntscH.

Lawnnce O 'Toole (Loit- c\N Ua Toathail) Saint, confessor, b. about 1128, in the present Co, Kildare; d. 14 Nov., IISO, at £u in Normandy; canonized in 1225 by HonoriiLH III. Hit father was chief of Hy Murray, and his mother one of the (.'Ian O'Byme. At the age of ten be was taken asa hosta^ by Dermot McMurrogh, King of Lein- ster. In 1140 the boy ob- iter the monastic school of .lley-eanctuary he studied for

prelate restored churches, established

12 May, 1433, he was raised to the Bishopric of Cas- (Co. Kilkenny! and at Agbiade (Co. ('ariow), in 1151. ._.!_ rjn. 1 . .._ 1 .1 .1 . 1 ,! . . jjg ^1^ founded an abbey for Cistercian monks at

Baliinglaas, and an abliey for Austin canons at Fcma. St. Lawrence, through humility, deelined the See of

Giendalough in 1160, but on the death of Gregory,

vents, and reformed the life of the canons. But above

all be was noted for his Christian charity and his

hounded liberality. All the monev he couhl raisf

bestowed upon the poor, while be himaelf ted a life of the vacant

X, and wa& cuiuiccratcd iu Christ Chuich