St Lawrence
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St Lawrence is a martyr whose feast is celebrated on August 10th. A conjecture suggests a joke about St Lawrence being too lazy to move himself on the gridiron, asking his torturers to turn him around.
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“Another conjecture is that there was a joke to the effect that when the martyr St Lawrence told his torturers to turn him round on his gridiron, it was because he was too lazy to move by himself.”
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