# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin (Apr 29
# on this app's own calendar, sharing the date with St. Robert — see
# st-robert.yml) — an off-date sourcing case like St. Paul the Hermit
# in the pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints): the general
# Tridentine calendar keeps Catherine on Apr 30 instead (this app's own
# Apr 30 slot going to St. Peter Martyr — see st-peter-martyr.yml's own
# note on this same date swap). `SanctiM/04-30.txt` inherits the whole
# day (`@Sancti/04-30`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's
# own vita is sourced from the Tridentine track there, exactly as for a
# pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-30.txt, English/Sancti/04-30.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-catherine-of-siena
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Catharina, virgo Senensis piis orta parentibus, beati Dominici habitum, quem sorores de
        Pœnitentia gestant, impetravit. Summa ejus fuit abstinentia, et admirabilis vitæ
        austeritas. Inventa est aliquando a die Cinerum usque ad Ascensionem Domini jejunium
        perduxisse, sola Eucharistiæ communione contenta. Luctabatur quam frequentissime cum
        dæmonibus, multisque illorum molestiis vexabatur, æstuabat febribus, nec aliorum morborum
        cruciatu carebat. Magnum et sanctum erat Catharinæ nomen, et undique ad eam ægroti et
        malignis vexati spiritibus deducebantur. Languoribus et febribus in Christi nomine
        imperabat, et dæmones cogebat ab obsessis abire corporibus.


        Cum Pisis immoraretur die Dominico, refecta cibo cælesti, et in extasim rapta, vidit
        Dominum crucifixum magno cum lumine advenientem, et ex ejus vulnerum cicatricibus quinque
        radios ad quinque loca sui corporis descendentes; ideoque mysterium advertens, Dominum
        precata, ne cicatrices apparerent; continuo radii colorem sanguineum mutaverunt in
        splendidum, et in formam puræ lucis pervenerunt ad manus, pedes, et cor ejus: ac tantus
        erat dolor, quem sensibiliter patiebatur, ut nisi Deus minuisset, brevi se crederet
        morituram. Hanc ítaque gratiam amantissimus Dominus nova gratia cumulavit, ut sentiret
        dolorem illapsa vi vulnerum et cruenta signa non apparerent. Quod ita contigisse cum Dei
        famula confessario suo Raymundo retulisset, ut oculis étiam repræsentaretur, radios in
        imaginibus beatæ Catharinæ ad dicta quinque loca pertingentes, pia fidelium cura pictis
        coloribus expressit.


        Doctrina ejus infusa, non acquisita fuit; sacrarum litterarum professoribus difficillimas
        de divinitate quæstiones proponentibus respondit; nemo ad eam accessit, qui non melior
        abierit: multa exstinxit odia, et mortales sedavit inimicitias. Pro pace Florentinorum,
        qui cum Ecclesia dissidebant, et interdicto ecclesiastico suppositi erant, Avenionem ad
        Gregorium undecimum Pontificem maximum profecta est. Cui étiam votum ejus de petenda
        Urbe soli Deo notum, sese divinitus cognovisse monstravit: deliberavitque Pontifex, ea
        étiam suadente, ad sedem suam Romanam personaliter accedere: quod et fecit. Eidem
        Gregorio et Urbano sexto ejus successori acceptissima fuit, adeo ut legationibus eorum
        fungeretur. Denique post innumera virtutum insignia, dono prophetiæ, et pluribus clara
        miraculis, anno ætatis suæ tertio circiter et trigesimo, migravit ad Sponsum. Quam Pius
        secundus Pontifex maximus sanctarum Virginum numero adscripsit.
      en: >-
        This Katharine was a maiden of Siena, and was born of godly parents. She took the habit
        of the Third Order of St. Dominic. Her fasts were most severe, and the austerity of her
        life wonderful. It was discovered that on some occasions she took no food at all from Ash
        Wednesday till Ascension Day, receiving all needful strength by taking the Holy Communion.
        She was engaged oftentimes in a wrestling with devils, and was sorely tried by them with
        diverse assaults: she was consumed by fevers, and suffered likewise from other diseases.
        Great and holy was the name of Katharine, and sick folk, and such as were vexed with evil
        spirits, were brought to her from all quarters. Through the Name of Christ, she had
        command over sickness and fever, and forced the foul spirits to leave the bodies of the
        tormented.


        While she dwelt at Pisa, on a certain Lord's Day, after she had received the Living Bread
        Which came down from heaven, she was in the spirit; and saw the Lord nailed to the Cross
        advancing towards her. There was a great light round about Him, and five rays of light
        streaming from the five marks of the Wounds in His Feet, and Hands, and Side, which smote
        her upon the five corresponding places in her body. When Katharine perceived this vision,
        she besought the Lord that no marks might become manifest upon her flesh, and straightway
        the five beams of light changed from the colour of blood into that of gold, and touched in
        the form of pure light her feet, and hands, and side. At this moment the agony which she
        felt was so piercing, that she believed that if God had not lessened it, she would have
        died. Thus the Lord in His great love for her, gave her this great grace, in a new and
        twofold manner, namely, that she felt all the pain of the wounds, but without there being
        any bloody marks to meet the gaze of men. This was the account given by the handmaiden of
        God to her Confessor, Raymund, and it is for this reason that when the godly wishes of the
        faithful lead them to make pictures of the blessed Katharine, they paint her with golden
        rays of light proceeding from those five places in her body which correspond to the five
        places wherein our Lord was wounded by the nails and spear.


        The learning which Katharine had was not acquired but inspired. She answered Professors
        of Divinity upon the very hardest questions concerning God. No one was ever in her company
        without going away better. She healed many hatreds, and quieted the most deadly feuds. To
        make peace for the Florentines, who had quarrelled with the Church, and were under an
        Ecclesiastical Interdict, she travelled to Avignon to see the Chief Pontiff Gregory XI. To
        him she showed that she had had revealed to her from heaven his secret purpose of going
        back to Rome, which had been known only to God and himself. It was at her persuasion, as
        well as by his own judgment, that the Pope did in the end return to his own See. She was
        much respected by this Gregory, as well as by his successor Urban VI, who even employed
        her in their embassies. The Bridegroom took her home when she was about thirty-three years
        old, after she had given almost countless proofs of extraordinary Christian graces, and
        manifestly displayed the gifts of Prophecy and miracles. Pope Pius II enrolled her among
        the Virgin Saints.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
