How apt
Was looking at Wiki on who was born or died on this day
Then come across this
Saint Laurence of Canterbury (d. February 3, 619) was the second
Archbishop of Canterbury. He arrived at Thanet with St. Augustine
in 597 as part of the missionary effort dispatched from Rome to
Kent in 595. He was sent back to Pope Gregory I to report on the
successes in Kent in converting King Ethelbert. He succeeded
Augustine to the See of Canterbury around 604 and ruled until his
death. He was succeeded as Archbishop by Mellitus, the Bishop of
London.
During Laurence's reign, Ethelbert died (616) and his son Eadbald
returned to the old faiths and many prominent missionaries fled to
Gaul. But Laurence managed to reconvert him. The tale is that
Laurence had been prepared to give up when he was visited by St.
Peter in a vision, who chastised him and whipped him. The marks of
the whipping remained and the display of them to Eadbald effected
his conversion.
On his death he was buried in St. Peter's Abbey church, later
renamed Saint Augustine's. His festival is on February 3.