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Laurentius

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[law-ren-shee-uhs, -shuhs] / lɔˈrɛn ʃi əs, -ʃəs /

noun

  1. Saint. Lawrence, Saint.


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Crews last week surrounded the 140-year-old St. Laurentius Church in the Fishtown neighborhood with scaffolding, fencing and barricades.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022

St. Laurentius is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, and the Philadelphia Historical Commission has ordered the developer to preserve or rebuild the church’s front face in any new development.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2022

We saw the St. Laurentius Church she attended in her childhood, built in 1462, 30 years before Columbus sailed to America and 60 before Magellan’s stragglers finished their circumnavigation.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2016

Dutch Defense Minister Laurentius Nicolas Deckers, orating before the Dutch Parliament, declared that Japan will never dare to send more than one-tenth of her fleet to attack Borneo which is 3,000 miles from Japan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Witodlice Decius egeslice awedde, and binnon �rym dagum mid deoflicre stemne singallice hrymde, "Ic halsige �e, Laurentius, abl�n hw�thwega ��ra tintregena."

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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