Lorenzo non è nella Bibbia — significa “da Laurentum”

Lawrence is not in the Bible. It comes from the Roman name Laurentius, “from Laurentum,” a city in ancient Italy whose name probably came from laurus, the Latin word for laurel. It became a Christian name because of Saint Lawrence, a deacon of the church in Rome who was martyred in 258. It is the man, more than the Latin, who gives the name its meaning for us. Lawrence looked after the church’s goods and its gifts to the poor.…