According to the Greek Great Synaxarion, St. Laurence (Lawrence) is commemorated by the church on March 7 as founder of the monastery of Phaneromene on the island of Salamis. He lived in Megara as a married man with two sons and was righteous and devout. According to the synaxarion, the Holy Mother of God appeared to him in a dream and commanded him to go to the island of Salamis and to restore to her an existing church at a certain location. He went and discovered the ruins of an old building and built a new church. The story continues that he was then tonsured a monk and he died on March 7, 1770 AD.