Emperor who sits in whisperers' box sentenced Saint Lawrence to death.

Wikipedia

Emperor who sits in whisperers' box sentenced Saint Lawrence to death. 

The picture in this text portrays Saint Lawrence before Valerianus. And in this fresco is hidden very interesting detail, and that detail is connected to the room, where Valerianus sits. That place could be the whisperers' box, where somebody, who sits above the emperor gives orders, what that man should do, or if the emperor would not follow the orders, the pike would drop on his head. That thing is warning, that the emperor would not always work from the own will.

Another detail, what might interest the people is why those soldiers have no shoes? Don't they need boots in their work, or hs the emperor given orders, that the floors must be clean? So is there the cleaning turn of his wife, because guards must take the shoes off? 

When we are looking at the story of Sait Lawrence and the detail, where he gave all the property of the church to poor people when the emperor asks it. That caused the slow and painful death because the emperor burned that man, who laughed his torturers and soldiers. The question is, who were those poor people, and what made them the treasure of the church?

The answer would be that if some patrician family members have turned to Christianity, that thing might uncover things like genetic weakness and ability to mental illness. That's why the emperor persecuted Christians at that time. Of course, there could be the reason, that some members of the even the highest rank Patrician families would be genetical weak.

But if in every case, when the people, who were part of some group would make children, the result is handicapped, would the problem be in the higher rank family. And if the emperor would be at the level of the child, that situation will be really interesting, because in that case, the politics will be very unstable, if somebody else doesn't use the power for the emperor.