(Angelus News) St. Lawrence (1381-1455) wanted to become a Canonized Saint from the time he was a child and when he was nineteen, he received a vision that left a void in his heart that only God could fulfill, he turned down an arranged marriage, instead joined the ‘Canons Regular of St. George’ a friend of his, tried to tempt him back into a life of earthly pleasures but Brother Lawrence knew that only God could bring him happiness.
Brother Lawrence became Superior and subsequently General of ‘Canons Regular of St. George’ he would later become Bishop of his Diocese and later appointed the first Patriarch of Italy Venice, through it all he remained humble, eternally seeking Heaven.
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