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| | WesternOrthodox.com - St. Laurence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | E beseech thee, O Lord, graciously to hear the prayers which we offer unto thee on the solemnity of blessed Laurence, thy Confessor and Bishop: that, like as he was found to to do thee faithful service, so by his intercession we may be absolved from all our sins. |
 | | The death of King Ethelbert, in 616 was followed by a heathen reaction under his son Eadbald, and under the sons of Sebert who became kings of the East Saxons. |
 | | They departed, and he, discouraged by the undoing of St. Augustine's work, was preparing to follow them, when St. Peter appeared to him in a vision, blaming him for thinking of leaving his flock and inflicting stripes upon him. |
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