Sub-Saharan Africa, 21 July, 2026 / 11:15 am (ACI Africa). St. Lawrence of Brindisi, whose feast we celebrate on July 21, is a Doctor of the Church. As a boy, he studied with the Conventual Franciscans and later went to study in Venice. There he discerned a call to enter the Capuchin Franciscans and took the name Lawrence. He was a great preacher and refused a second term as minister general of his order in favor of preaching.