On this date (August 10), 1,764 years ago, St. Lawrence, the Archdeacon of Rome, was executed for trolling the IRS of his day.
Emperor Valerian launched a persecution against Christians in early August of 258, ordering that all Christian clergy be executed. On August 6, the Bishop of Rome, Pope Sixtus II, was captured in a cemetery while saying Mass. He was sentenced to death. Per imperial order, according to the forfeiture law, all of the churchβs money was also to be confiscated. Lawrence was the treasurer in charge of the cathedralβs goods to be distributed to the poor.
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