St. Lorenzo's Church (Dunell Hills)

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St. Lorenzo's Church Dunell Hills [6,37] the Dury Building Zephyrinus General Hospital Club Meade Molesworth Road St. Lorenzo's Church Comer Avenue Penny Crescent Fullaway Crescent the Tibbs Monument Basic Info: Churches contain crucifixes, wine, and first aid kits, though hospitals are far better for that last item. Churches have no internal descriptions. Church doors do not close but can be barricaded shut.

There are three locations named St. Lorenzo's Church in the city of Malton. This article is about the one in Dunell Hills.

St. Lorenzo's Church [6, 37] is located in the southeastern section of Dunell Hills.

Description

St. Lorenzo's is a small, modern church adjacent to Zephyrinus General Hospital; the building once featured beautiful stained glass windows that have since been damaged beyond repair. The church has seen better days and the inside of the building is coated in a thick layer of garbage, grime, and dried blood.

Notes

The building is now a designated revive point for the BZD Superstructure's Revive Center.

Barricading Policy

St. Lorenzo's Church serves as an entry point into the nearby Tactical Resource buildings as well as a indoor revive point.

Tactical Resource Points

The nearest of each type of tactical resource point to St. Lorenzo's Church:

• Nearest Hospital is 1 block away - Zephyrinus General Hospital at [6, 36].
• Nearest Mall is 13 blocks away - Caiger Mall at [19, 28].
• Nearest NecroTech Building is 1 block away - The Dury Building at [5, 36].
• Nearest Police Department is 2 blocks away - Broadbelt Grove Police Department at [7, 35].

History and Significance

Revivifications are handled inside the building, except in the event that precinct or command staff has ordered the building to be barricaded.

St. Lorenzo

St. Lorenzo, or St. Lawrence (? - 258), was one of the seven archdeacons of the Church in Rome in the mid-Third Century. Lorenzo was charged with keeping the Church’s written records and archives, and is therefore considered the patron saint of libraries and librarians.

Having already outlawed the practice of Christianity, on August 6, 258, the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered Pope St. Sixtus (II) and the other archdeacons in Rome arrested and beheaded. However, Lorenzo was spared execution because the greedy Emperor believed that as the Church's record-keeper, he would know the exact whereabouts of all of the Church’s material wealth. Lorenzo wept as the Pope was led past him to his death, but the Pope comforted Lorenzo by saying, "I do not leave you behind, for we shall be reunited in four days."

Valerian commanded Lorenzo to bring him all the treasures of the Church within four days, as well as its written records, likely so that he could identify Roman nobles who had converted to Christianity and either confiscate their estates or hold the nobles for ransom. Instead Lorenzo, now the ranking member of the Church in Rome, spent the two days giving all of the Church's possessions to the poor, then liquidating his own goods and giving those away as well. When the appointed time came, Lorenzo gathered all of the Church’s lame, blind, diseased, and orphaned converts and brought them all before the Emperor, announcing, "These are the treasures of the Church!"

According to legend, an enraged Valerian ordered Lorenzo executed by roasting upon an iron grill over a slow fire, and Lorenzo won the onlookers' great respect when he asked his executioners to turn him because he was fully cooked on one side. The bravery with which Lorenzo and the other archdeacons met their deaths is said to have inspired many to convert to Christianity. In actuality, Lorenzo was almost certainly beheaded, but so persistent is the legend that Lorenzo is usually pictured holding the gridiron upon which he was ostensibly martyred, and is also considered a patron saint of cooks.

His feast day is celebrated on August 10, the anniversary of his martyrdom in 258 C.E. The Perseid metoer shower, which is visible around that date each summer, is sometimes referred to in Italy as "the tears of San Lorenzo."

(St. Lorenzo should not be confused with St. Lorenzo Ruiz, a 17th-century martyr of the Philippines.)

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