St. Lawrence has become one of the most venerated martyrs of the Roman church and his name is mentioned in the Roman Canon.
Here is his entry in the Roman Martyrology for August 10th:
"At Rome, on the Via Tiburtina, the birthday of blessed Lawrence, Archdeacon, who fulfilled martyrdom in the persecution of Valerian, after many torments -- imprisonment, various stripes, scorpions, rods and scourges and burning torches -- being last of all roasted on a gridiron. His body was buried by blessed Hippolytus and Justin the Priest in the cemetary of Cyriac in the Campo Verano."
