# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, 2026-06-24, clean year.
id: nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist
groups:
  - psalms: [92]
    antiphon:
      la: "Elísabeth Zacharíæ * magnum virum génuit, Joánnem Baptístam, præcursórem Dómini."
      en: "Elizabeth, the wife of Zacharias, * was the mother of a mighty man, even of John the Baptist, the Fore-runner of the Lord."
  - psalms: [99]
    antiphon:
      la: "Innuébant patri ejus * quem vellet vocári eum: et scripsit dicens: Joánnes est nomen ejus."
      en: "They made signs to his father * how he would have him called; and he asked for a writing-table, and wrote, saying: His name is John."
  - psalms: [62]
    antiphon:
      la: "Joánnes vocábitur * nomen ejus: et in nativitáte ejus multi gaudébunt."
      en: "Thou shalt call his name John; * and many shall rejoice at his birth."
canticle:
  id: canticum-trium-puerorum
  antiphon:
    la: "Inter natos mulíerum * non surréxit major Joánne Baptísta."
    en: "Among them that are born of women * there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist."
laudate:
  antiphon:
    la: "Tu, puer, * Prophéta Altíssimi vocáberis; præíbis ante Dóminum paráre vias ejus."
    en: "Thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest; * for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, to prepare His ways."
