St. Mc. Flor and Lavrutranslated

Orthodox calendar, August 18 St. Mc. Flor and Lavru The Holy Martyrs Flor and Lavru lived in the 2nd century, they were twin brothers and stone sculptors, an art they learned from Saints Proclus and Maximus. After their teachers died as martyrs, they went to Illyricum, in Dardania, to the city of Ulpian, where they worked for the governor Licon.

He sent them to Licinius, the son of empress Elpidia, who ordered them to build a pagan temple. Flor and Lavru distributed the money received from Licinius to the poor, and at night they prayed to God, and during the day they worked to finish the church.

Together with Merentius, who had been a pagan priest and had converted to Christianity, Flor and Lavru gathered the poor to whom they had given the money and tore down the idols in the temple. Learning about what happened, Licinius ordered that the poor be thrown into a hot furnace, and Flor and Lavru be beaten and sent to the prefect Licon.

He put the saints in a deep well and thus Flor and Lavru found the end of their lives. After a few years their relics were removed from the well and placed honorably in reliquaries, which emanated perfumes and cured those who approached them of disease.

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