#saint lawrence

[hexnovo]

Hey folks, I can finally release a few illustration I made last spring for Casket Dealer's debut EP Letters from the dead, featuring some martyrs.

You can find prints here and preorder the album here

[bathtubkey]

think part of what makes the adam/lawrence dynamic so fascinating is that they Know each other, but also they don’t at all

like based on going through the bathroom trap together and spending 6 hours under intense stress, they’re uniquely poised to know rlly intimate details about how the other REACTS to stress, fear, heartbreak, anger, helplessness, etc.

but they’re also still strangers really. lawrence doesn’t even know adam’s last name.

so immediately post-trap its this incredible combination of “i would do anything for you and i feel like we’re bound for life and i feel anxious without you near” and like …. coworker energy dkffjjdjfnf

[simonangelart]

WHATEVER YOU DO IS A DELIGHT TO ME - Simon Angel

Photography, 2024

[sacredheart-stigmata]

A Prayer to Saint Lawrence for Joy Amidst Suffering

Martyrdom of St Lawrence by Johann Heinrich Schonfeld

Saint Lawrence, martyr of Rome, lover of the poor, patron of butchers and fires, you are known for your great courage before the judges of Rome when you proclaimed that the poor and widowed were the church’s greatest treasure. You were dragged before the fire and placed on the flames, bound tight and slowly roasted. How great your agony must have been, second only to your love for the hated and unwanted of Rome! Yet, despite the slow, agonizing flames, you praised God with a smile upon your blistering face. 

"Now you may turn me over, my body is roasted enough on this side." You said to your torturers as you died, "At last I am finished; you may now take from me and eat." Even in the face of great horror, you used the love of God to keep your wit and humor with you. You grinned amidst the flames, joked and laughed as the air filled with the smell of your roasting flesh. Truly, if there is any representation of joy in the midst of suffering, it is you, Saint Lawrence! Let us took to you now to learn such a skill. Pray for us, Lawrence, that we might also face pain and suffering with such bold gladness, and carry our crosses with a joyful laugh. Pray that we not fall into despair, but be lifted upon the shoulders of the loving, living God. 

In the name of your beloved Savior, we pray,

Amen

[useless-catalanfacts]

Every year from mid-July to late-August there is the meteor shower that many cultures of South-Western Europe call "the tears of Saint Lawrence" (les llàgrimes de Sant Llorenç in Catalan).

Why are they called that?

Saint Lawrence is a martyr venerated by Christians. It's believed that he was one of the victims of Roman emperor Valerian's persecution of Christians, and the Romans burned him on a grill and then burned him to death at a stake. He was killed on August 10th of the year 258, and for this reason August 10th is Saint Lawrence's Day.

The peak point in the meteor shower is on the days around August 10th, the day of Sant Lawrence's feast. People would see that, on the night he was remembered, there were comets in the sky. These comets are said to be the tears that Saint Lawrence cried when he was being burned on the grill. The tears, falling to the fire, come back on the sky every year.

What actually are these shooting stars?

Here is how NASA explains this phenomenon:

Meteors come from leftover comet particles and bits from broken asteroids. When comets come around the Sun, they leave a dusty trail behind them. Every year Earth passes through these debris trails, which allows the bits to collide with our atmosphere and disintegrate to create fiery and colorful streaks in the sky. The pieces of space debris that interact with our atmosphere to create the Perseids [=the tears of Saint Lawrence] originate from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once. [... It] last visited the inner solar system in 1992.

[tragediambulante]

The Martydrom of Saint Lawrence, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1617

[apenitentialprayer]

detail of Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Forty Saints, circa 1340.

All Saints Day — of course, we think of all those who are in heaven with God; to use the language of the Book of Revelation, those who have washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb [...] In other words, people who did their best, but who really relied on the help and mercy of God. And we think of some of the great saints, whose names are listed in the canon of the Church, but we also think about the saints who are lesser known. That's what's so great about this day; this is everybody's feast day. When you think of... how many people have made this trek of life, stayed faithful (or tried to stay faithful), experienced God's mercy and forgiveness, who are now in heaven with God. So we celebrate them. But at the same time, on [All Souls Day] we remember all those who have died. And that's a little bit more of a somber gathering, right? So, what do we do on that day? Well, you know, we pray for those who have died who are in need of our prayers, who are making their way (you might say), crossing through the curtain between time and space into eternity. Those seeking God's mercy. And we remember, really, what is it about for all of us, you know, that you and I were made to live forever? That our ultimate destiny is to be with God? We have to, on the one hand, make choices in this life, to try to live a life, that leads us to God, leads us to heaven; but we also know that we're not perfect, and that we're in need of God's help and mercy, and we pray for that for ourselves and for one another.

Bishop Robert Brennan (Reflecting on Faithfulness, Remembrance, and Hope)

detail of Saint Lawrence Leading Souls from Purgatory, by Lorenzo di Niccolò, circa 1410.

[koredzas]

Fra Angelico - Consecration of Saint Lawrence as a Deacon by Pope Sixtus. 1447 - 1450