The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . orian St. Lawrence is re-ferred to as presbyter, in distinction to Peter who iscalled monachus. From this it has been conjecturedthat he was a secular priest and not a monk; but thisconclusion has been questioned by Benedictine writerssuch as Elmham in the Middle Ages and Mabillon inlater times. When St. Gregory had decided the ques-tions asked, St. Lawrence returned to Britain bearingthe replies, and he remained with St. Augustine shar-ing his
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . orian St. Lawrence is re-ferred to as presbyter, in distinction to Peter who iscalled monachus. From this it has been conjecturedthat he was a secular priest and not a monk; but thisconclusion has been questioned by Benedictine writerssuch as Elmham in the Middle Ages and Mabillon inlater times. When St. Gregory had decided the ques-tions asked, St. Lawrence returned to Britain bearingthe replies, and he remained with St. Augustine shar-ing his work. That saint, shortly before his deathwhich probably took place in 604, consecrated as bishop, lest the infant Church should beleft for a time without a pastor. Of the new arch-bishops episcopate Bede writes: Lawrence, havingattained the dignity of archbishop, strove most vigor-ously to add to the foundations of the Church whichhe had seen so nobly laid and to forward the work byfrequent words of holy exhortation and by the con-stant example of his devoted labour. The only ex-tant genuine document relating to him is the fragment. ST. LAWRENCE BEING ORDAINED DEACON BY SIXTHS II TRA ANGELICO—VATICAN LAWRENCE 91 LAWRENCE preserved by Bade of the letter he addressed to theCeltic bishops exhorting them to peace and unity withRome. The death of King Ethelbert in 616 was fol-lowed by a heathen reaction under his son Eadbald,and under the sons of Sebert who became kings of theEast Saxons. Saints Mellitus and Justus, bishops ofthe newly-founded Sees of London and Rochester,took refuge with St. Lawrence at Canterbury andurged him to fly to Gaul with them. They departed,and he, discouraged by the undoing of St. Augustineswork, was preparing to follow them, when St. Peterappeared to him in a vision, blaming him for thinkingof leaving his flock and inflicting stripes upon the morning he hastenedto the king, exhibiting hiswounded body and relatinghis vision. This le
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