# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs (Sep 26)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-26*.txt at all; the "n" suffix
# variant at this date is a modern 20th-c. feast, not relevant).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-26.txt, English/Sancti/09-26.txt.
# Lectio2-3 is one continuous account, no internal break, combined into
# a single reading. No responsory given.
id: ss-cyprian-and-justina
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Cypriánus, primum magus, póstea Martyr, cum Justínam, christiánam Vírginem, quam júvenis
        quidam ardénter amábat, cantiónibus ac venefíciis ad ejus libídinis assénsum allícere
        conarétur, dæmonem consúluit quanam id re cónsequi posset. Cui dæmon respóndit nullam illi
        artem processúram advérsus eos, qui vere Christum cólerent. Quo respónso commótus Cypriánus,
        veheménter dolére cœpit vitæ superióris institútum. Itaque, relíctis mágicis ártibus, se
        totum ad Christi Dómini fidem convértit.


        Quam ob causam una cum Vírgine Justína comprehénsus est, et ambo cólaphis flagellísque cæsi
        sunt; mox in cárcerem conjécti, si forte senténtiam commutárent. Verum, inde póstea emíssi,
        cum in christiána religióne constantíssimi reperiréntur, in sartáginem plenam fervéntis
        picis, ádipis et ceræ injécti sunt. Demum Nicomedíæ secúri feriúntur. Quorum projécta córpora
        cum sex dies inhumáta jacuíssent noctu quidam nautæ clam ea in navem impósita Romam
        portavérunt. Ac primum in prædio Rufínæ nóbilis féminæ sepúlta sunt; póstea, transláta in
        Urbem, in basílica Constantiniána cóndita sunt prope baptistérium.
      en: >-
        Cyprian was firstly a warlock and lastly a Martyr. A certain young man having a violent lust
        after a Christian maiden named Justina, employed him to excite her to join in this lewdness,
        by dint of incantations and philters. Cyprian thereupon asked counsel of the devil, how he
        might best gain that end. But the devil answered him that these arts are only thrown away
        upon true worshippers of Christ. This answer troubled Cyprian, and he began to repent
        heartily of the course of life he had hitherto led. And then he forsook his arts magic, and
        gave himself wholly up to the faith of the Lord Christ.


        For this cause, he and the Virgin Justina were arrested together, beaten with blows and
        scourging, and cast into prison, if haply they might change their mind. Being brought out of
        the prison, but still standing fast in their Christian religion, they were dipped in a vessel
        full of hot pitch, fat, and wax, and in the end beheaded, at Nicomedia. Their bodies were
        thrown out, and lay unburied for the space of six days, at the end of which time some sailors
        took them secretly by night on board a ship and carried them to Rome. They were first buried
        on the farm of the noble Lady Rufina, but afterwards brought into the city, where they lie
        hard by the Baptistery in the Church of Constantine.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
