Webwith great aplomb, lawrence entered the palace, stopped, and then gestured back to the door where, streaming in behind him, poured crowds of poor, crippled, blind, and. Lawrence was a deacon during the pontificate of pope st. Sixtus ii and, along with some other clerical companions, was martyred just days after pope sixtus ii. Lawrence and the treasures of the church. Today the church celebrates the witness of saint lawrence, who was brutally tortured and killed because he would. Webthe tragic sinking of the empress of ireland in the frigid waters of the st. The second voyage of jacques cartier, undertaken in the years 1535 and 1536, is the exploit on which his title to fame chiefly.
