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San Lorenzo

American  
[san luh-ren-zoh] / ˌsæn ləˈrɛn zoʊ /

noun

  1. a town in W California, near San Francisco Bay.


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One of the leader’s admirers, a restorer working on a fresco at Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, etched her likeness onto the face of an angel holding up a map of Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina is one of Rome's oldest churches and features artwork by Baroque masters Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Guido Reni.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

The story began on Saturday when La Repubblica daily revealed that the face of a freshly-restored winged figure in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church closely resembled Meloni.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

An avid soccer fan, Francis zealously supported the San Lorenzo team from his native Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2025

Scattered around the San Lorenzo platform were stone monuments: massive thrones for living kings, huge stone heads for dead ones.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann