Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of the Christian community in the city of Rome, ie for the finances and the social work of the Church of Rome jurisdiction.

As the Roman bishop Sixtus II in the Christian persecutor Valerian was arrested and beheaded, his deacon Laurentius Overdelivery after the desperate, that he was deemed not worthy of this death to share. Sixtus consoled him with the promise that he had him in three days will follow, and gave him the task of the church treasure the suffering and poor auszuteilen. Emperor Valerian claimed these treasures, to Lawrence to disclose to compel was repeatedly scourged, but asked for three days of reflection, distributed during this period the goods are presented and then the person and the poor had become a Christian emperor as "the true treasures of the Church ". The infuriated Valerian had with Lawrence Bleiklötzen beat between hot plates set, he tried in vain to pagan sacrifice service to compel and ordered finally, the ever-entertaining steadfast on fire on a grate slowly to torture to death. Even in these torments he kept his humor and tease the executioner, he should fire him on the turn, the roast was on the one hand, we definitely do. His jailer Hippolytus, by the steadfastness of the Lawrence converted, buried him. 

  The "Santo Cáliz" in Valencia, as the original Last Supper chalice of Jesus venerated
Legends report, among the treasures was the original cup was that Jesus used at the Last Supper and of Peter in Rome had been brought. Lawrence had him by a Spanish soldier after Huesca in Aragon can bring. As in the 8th Century, the Moors conquered Spain, Christians hid the precious vessel in a cave, and finally in the fortress monastery of San Juan de la Peña in the Pyrenees foreland until 1437 he came to Valencia. Today in the chapter-hall of the cathedral in Valencia honorable Goblet - juwelengeschmückt and green agate - with the 1982 Pope John Paul II celebrated the exhibition, was the fabled Holy Grail - the other after Overdelivery of Joseph von Arimathaia was brought to England .