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Greetings young Squires Spruits.

Today is the 10th day and the eighth month in the year of our Lord,

2020.

My name is Sir Roland Paderlott, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rol

and on Catholic Sprouts where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

Today we celebrate the feast of St. Lawrence,

an early Christian martyr who died around the year 258. St. Lawrence was a deacon in the church in Rome,

and his duties included caring for the church's goods and almsgiving, which he administered

generously because he was very good at slaying the green dragon of greed. He's very close to Pope St. Sixtus

the 2nd and was martyred a few days after the Pope under the persecution of Valerian. Not a lot of

facts are known about Lawrence, but legend says that after the Pope was martyred, he knew he would

soon be martyred as well, so he distributed all the church's wealth to the poor. The prefect of Rome demanded he

gather the treasures of the church and bring it to him. So Lawrence gathered all the poor and sick

people and told the prefect of Rome that they were the treasures of the church. Well, the

prefect didn't find this very funny, and he was upset, so he ordered that St. Lawrence be

barbecued to death. He was placed on a hot grill,

and in the most famous legend of Lawrence, it has said that after being placed on the hot

gridiron for some time, Lawrence humorously quipped, uh, I think I'm done on this side. You can turn

me over now. Um, you got to love the saints with a sense of humor. So next time you're having

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