Non-Italic Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal for Friday of the Third Week in Lent
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Station at Saint Laurence's in Lucina
Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines
Violet Vestments
This is one of the numerous Sanctuaries built in Rome in honour of the martyred Deacon. Part of the gridiron, on which he was tortured, is kept there. This Church, one of the twenty-five titular, or Parish, Churches of the first Christian capital in the 5th-Century, is still today that from which the first of the Cardinal Priests derives his title.
It was during the forty years passed in the desert that Moses and Aaron asked God to bring from the rock - a figure of Christ - "a spring of living water," so that all the people could quench their thirst (Epistle). During these forty days of Lent, the Church asks Christ to give us the living water about which He spoke to the woman of Samaria near Jacob's well, the water which quenches our thirst for ever (Gospel). This water is our faith in Jesus, it is grace, it is the blood which flows from the wounds of the Saviour, and which, through Baptism, Penance and the other Sacraments, purifies our Souls, and gushes forth into eternal life, of which it assures us a share.
We should note the parallel that it pleased Christian art to establish between Saint Peter and Moses. It is the latter who touched the rock from whence the water surged; this is a symbol of Christina Baptism, given by the Church, of which Saint Peter is the head.
The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Laurentii in Lucina, established in 684 A.D., is Malcolm Ranjith since November, 20 2010.
Pope Saint Marcellus I hid in the Basilica to escape persecution
Pope Marcellus I hid here during Maxentius' persecution, while Pope Damasus I was elected here in 366 A.D. The Church was known as Titulus Lucinae, and thus is mentioned in the Acts of the 499 A.D. Synod of Pope Symmachus.
To the 5th-Century, dates back a tradition that wanted a Litany each 25 April, starting from San Lorenzo in Lucina and ending in Saint Peter's Basilica.
The facade dates back to the 1112 A.D. rebuilding by Pope Paschal II, while the interior was completely changed in 1650 A.D., with the old lateral naves changed in Baroque chapels.
The High Altar
The High Altar, designed by Carlo Rainaldi, is decorated with a Crucifixion by Guido Reni. Under the altar there is the gridiron on which Saint Laurence was martyred. The relics were put here by Pope Paschal II, according to an inscription on the throne behind the altar. The chorus is decorated by Virgins and Saints by Placido Costanzi.
The second chapel to the right, designed by Carlo Rainaldi, was decorated by Jan Miel. Nicolas Poussin is buried in the second chapel on the right, with a monument donated by Chateaubriand with a bust by Paul Lemoyne and a relief by Louis Desprez.
The fourth chapel, the Fonseca chapel, was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and features a lively bust of Gabriel Fonseca by the master sculptor. It also houses a copy of Guido Reni's Annunciation completed by Giacinto Gimignani. The fifth chapel on the right has a Death of Saint Giacinta Marescotti by Marco Benefial and a Life of Saint Francis (1624) by Simon Vouet. The fourth chapel has a Saint Giuseppe by Alessandro Turchi and a San Carlo Borromeo by Carlo Saraceni. The first chapel has works (1721) by Giuseppe Sardi.
Charles Stewart, an officer in the Papal army, who died in 1864, is buried within the Church. He was the son of John Stewart, Prince Charles Edward Stuart's (Charles III) 'maestro di casa'. Charles had created John a Baronet in 1784.
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