St. Lawrence of Brindisi came after he led at Venice as a student a life of innocence and penance, at the age of 16 years in the Capuchin Order. The novitiate, he completed in Verona, after which he was sent to Padua to further education in the sciences. We marveled at the deep piety and the brilliant talent. In all sciences, especially linguistics, he showed great knowledge. "I could play the entire Hebrew scriptures word for word," he commented, such a memory he had. 1583 he was ordained priest, from where it spread to his truly apostolic zeal for souls. The success of his preaching was amazing. Even the stubborn Jewish people, many of which he converted, harbored admiration for the Capuchins, which is why Clement VIII appointed him to Rome, there Jews to convert. He was also transplanted to Germany of the Capuchin Order. 1601 Austria celebrated him as the winner of the Turks in battle at Szekesfehervar. A year later he is elected Superior General, in which capacity he traveled all the provinces to foot and everywhere echoed the cry, "St. General". Not just the people, and in Rome he was in great esteem, and it awarded him the Saint. Father and the learned Bellarmine pulled him even consulted. Pius VI. and Leo XIII. have chiefly to St.. Lorenz attributed that was not in Southern Protestantism spread out so as in the north. - In Villa Franca rest his bones. With Recommended approval of the Reverend. Bishop of Chur
