Practice of the Presence of God (version 2)
Author: first_name: Brother
last_name: Lawrence
Language: English
Year: 1670

Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire at his parish church during the Thirty Years War, a war in which he fought as a young soldier. It was also the war in which he sustained a near fatal injury to his sciatic nerve. The injury left him quite crippled and in chronic pain for the rest of his life.<br /><br />

The details of his early life are few and sketchy. However, we know he was educated bot