Laurentius

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Field	Value
name	Laurentius
image	Lawrence-before-Valerianus (cropped).jpg
caption	Saint Laurentius of Rome
gender	Male
meaning	"From Laurentum", or "Laurelled" ; "bright one, shining one"
region	Italy
language	Latin
related names	Llorente/Lorente (Aragonese-Spain), Laurens (Dutch, English), Lorenz (German), Lenz (German),Lorenzo (Italian,Castilian-Spain), Laurent (French), Laurențiu (Romanian), Lourenço (Portuguese), Laurence, Lawrence (English), Lavrentiy, Lavr (Russian), Lars, Lasse, Lassi (Swedish, Finnish), Lorik (Albanian), Lorenc Laura, Larry (English pet form of Lawrence or Laurence)
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| name = Laurentius | image = Lawrence-before-Valerianus (cropped).jpg | caption = Saint Laurentius of Rome | gender = Male | meaning = "From Laurentum", or "Laurelled" ; "bright one, shining one" | region = Italy | language = Latin | search = | related names = Llorente/Lorente (Aragonese-Spain), Laurens (Dutch, English), Lorenz (German), Lenz (German),Lorenzo (Italian,Castilian-Spain), Laurent (French), Laurențiu (Romanian), Lourenço (Portuguese), Laurence, Lawrence (English), Lavrentiy, Lavr (Russian), Lars, Lasse, Lassi (Swedish, Finnish), Lorik (Albanian), Lorenc Laura, Larry (English pet form of Lawrence or Laurence) Laurentius is a Latin given name and surname that means "From Laurentum" (a city near Rome). It is possible that the place name Laurentum is derived from the Latin laurus ("laurel"). People with the name include:

In Early Christianity:

Lawrence of Rome, Saint Laurentius of Rome (died 258), Italian deacon and saint, born in Spain

In Catholicism:

Antipope Laurentius (r. 498–506), antipope of the Roman Catholic Church
Laurence of Canterbury, archbishop of Canterbury known as Saint Laurentius
Lárentíus Kálfsson (1267–1331), bishop of Hólar, Iceland, 1324–1331
Laurentius Abstemius, Italian writer, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI
Laurentia McLachlan, Benedictian nun, Great Britain, 1866–1953

In Byzantium:

In Poland:

Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Laurentius Grimaldius Gosliscius, (1530–1607), Polish bishop, political thinker and philosopher best known for his book De optimo senatore

In Lutheranism:

Laurentius Andreae, Swedish clergyman and scholar
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565–1646), Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala
Laurentius Petri (1499–1573), Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden
Laurentius Petri Gothus, the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden
Paul Laurentius (1554–1624), Lutheran divine
Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, minister and witch hunter in Torsåker and Ytterlännäs, Sweden

In other fields:

Henrik Laurentius Helliesen, Norwegian Minister of Finance in several periods between 1863 and 1883
Laurentius (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Apostasimerini
Laurentius "Lou" van den Dries, Dutch mathematician

Variants (in various languages) include:

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