[JMJ333]

There is also the popular story that he was so willing to embrace Christ in heaven, that he did not mind the pain from the fire of his martyrdom, and indeed, he found the strength to tell his executioners "Turn me over. I am done on this side."

I am willing to believe that he was roasted and beheaded because I wouldn't have put anything past the pagan Romans. They were brutal beyond imagination.

[Lady In Blue]

I am willing to believe that he was roasted and beheaded because I wouldn't have put anything past the pagan Romans. They were brutal beyond imagination.

I also,can well believe that St Lawrence was beheaded after his cruel torturers were unable to get him to recant! And you're right about the Romans! I once read a book in which the author said that the Jews only allowed 39 lashes whereas the Romans would beat a person 100 lashes and with those whips that had some kind of instrument at the end of it!

[BlackVeil]

"was roasted and beheaded because I wouldn't have put anything past the pagan Romans" Sad to say, the penalty of burning alive persisted many centuries after his death, and was understood to be Christian. Disembowelling and burning was another refinement.