Spanish school; XVII century."San Lorenzo".Oil on copper.It presents an adapted 19th century frame.Measures: 22 x 17 cm; 28 x 22 cm (frame).A deacon born in Aragon, near Huesca, and martyred in Rome in 258, his "Legendary Acts" narrate that St. Lawrence, out of humility, washed the feet of Christians, cured a widow of a headache and gave sight to a blind man through baptism. Three days after the martyrdom of Pope Sixtus II, who had ordained him deacon and entrusted him with the treasure of the Church, he was arrested and ordered to hand over these riches. But there was nothing left of them, since Lorenzo had distributed them among the poor. Furious at seeing his greed frustrated, the emperor Decius ordered him to be flogged with rods, his ribs burned with a red-hot iron and, finally, to be spread naked on a gridiron placed on a mantle of coals.