# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Damasus I, Pope, Confessor
# (Dec 11) — SanctiM/12-11.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/12-11`)
# with no Nocturn 2 override, so this feast's own proper content is
# sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint
# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints, vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/12-11.txt, English/Sancti/12-11.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no
# genuine source break.
id: st-damasus
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Dámasus Hispánus, vir egrégius et erudítus in Scriptúris, indícto primo
        Constantinopolitáno concílio nefáriam Eunómii et Macedónii hæresim exstínxit. Idem
        Ariminénsem convéntum a Libério jam ante rejéctum, íterum condemnávit: in quo, ut
        scribit sanctus Hierónymus, Valéntis potíssimum et Ursácii fráudibus damnátio
        Nicænæ fídei conclamáta fuit: et ingemíscens orbis terrárum, se Ariánum esse mirátus
        est.


        Basílicas duas ædificávit, álteram sancti Lauréntii nómine ad theátrum Pompéji, quam
        máximis munéribus auxit, eíque domos et prædia attríbuit: álteram via Ardeatína ad
        Catacúmbas. Platóniam étiam, ubi córpora sanctórum Petri et Pauli aliquámdiu
        jacuérunt, dedicávit, et exornávit elegántibus vérsibus. Idémque prosa et versu
        scripsit de virginitáte, múltaque ália metro édidit.


        Pœnam taliónis constítuit iis, qui álterum falsi críminis accusássent. Státuit, ut,
        quod plúribus jam locis erat in usu, Psalmi per omnes ecclésias die noctúque ab
        altérnis caneréntur; et in fine cujúsque Psalmi dicerétur: Glória Patri, et Fílio, et
        Spirítui Sancto. Ejus jussu sanctus Hierónymus novum testaméntum Græcæ fídei réddidit.
        Cum Ecclésiam rexísset annos decem et septem, menses duos, dies vigínti sex, et
        habuísset ordinatiónes quinque mense Decémbri, quibus creávit presbyteros trigínta
        unum, diáconos úndecim, epíscopos per divérsa loca sexagínta duos; virtúte, doctrína,
        ac prudéntia clarus, prope octogenárius, Theodósio senióre imperánte, obdormívit in
        Dómino: et via Ardeatína una cum matre et soróre sepúltus est in basílica, quam ipse
        ædificáverat. Illíus relíquiæ póstea translátæ sunt in ecclésiam sancti Lauréntii, ab
        ejus nómine in Dámaso vocátam.
      en: >-
        Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in the Scriptures, and
        was elected to the Chair of Peter in the year of our Lord 381; he convoked the First
        Council of Constantinople, wherein he crushed the wicked heresy of Eunomius and
        Macedonius. He confirmed the condemnation of the Assembly, at Rimini, which
        condemnation had already been pronounced by Liberius. This Assembly of Rimini was that
        in which, to use the language of St. Jerome, Valens and Ursacius brought it about
        through trickery that the Faith of Nice was abrogated by mob law, and the world
        afterwards groaned in amazement to find itself Arian.


        This Pope built two Basilicas, first, St. Lawrence's, near Pompey's Theatre, which he
        magnificently enriched, and endowed with houses and farms; and, secondly, another,
        over the Catacombs on the Road to Ardea. He also consecrated the Platonia, where the
        bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul lay for some time, and decorated it with elegant
        inscriptions in poetry composed by himself. He wrote on the subject of virginity both
        in prose and verse, and likewise many other poems on various subjects.


        He ordained that false accusers should be punished for the offences which they had
        falsely laid to the charge of their neighbours. He established the usage, which
        already prevailed in many churches, of singing the Psalms, both by day and by night,
        by alternate choirs, and of adding at the end of each Psalm the words, Glory be to the
        Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. It was at his command that St. Jerome
        revised the translation of the New Testament to accord with the Greek text. He ruled
        the Church for seventeen years, two months, and twenty-six days. He held five Advent
        ordinations, wherein he ordained thirty-one Priests, eleven Deacons, and sixty-two
        Bishops for diverse Sees. At length he fell asleep in the Lord, in the reign of
        Theodosius the Elder, aged nearly eighty years, and full of righteousness, truth, and
        judgment. He was buried beside his mother and sister in the Church which he had himself
        founded on the Road to Ardea. His reliques were afterwards taken to the Basilica of St.
        Lawrence, which is thence sometimes called San Lorenzo in Damaso.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
