# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Louis, King of France, Confessor
# (Aug 25) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-25*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-25.txt, English/Sancti/08-25.txt.
# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account,
# no internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio7-9 are
# Common-of-a-Confessor (skipped). No responsory given.
id: st-louis
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Ludovicus nonus Galliæ rex, duodecim annos natus, patre amisso, et in Blanchæ matris
        sanctissima disciplina educatus, cum jam vigesimum annum in regno ageret, in morbum incidit:
        quo tempore cogitavit de recuperanda possessione Jerosolymorum. Quamobrem ubi convaluisset,
        vexillum ab episcopo Parisiensi accepit: deínde mare cum ingenti exercitu trajiciens, primo
        prælio Saracenos fugavit. Sed cum ex pestilentia magna militum multitudo periisset, victus
        ipse captusque est.


        Rebus postea cum Saracenis compositis, liber rex exercitusque dimittitur. Quinque annis in
        Oriente commoratus, plurimos Christianos a barbarorum servitute redemit, multos étiam
        infideles ad Christi fidem convertit: præterea aliquot Christianorum urbes refecit suis
        sumptibus. Interim mater ejus migrat e vita: quare domum redire cogitur, ubi totum se dedit
        pietatis officiis.


        Multa ædificavit monasteria, et pauperum hospitia: beneficentia egentes sublevabat: frequens
        visebat ægrotos, quibus ipse non solum suis sumptibus omnia suppeditabat, sed etiam, quæ opus
        erant, manibus ministrabat. Vestitu vulgari utebatur, cilicio ac jejunio corpus assidue
        affligebat. Sed cum iterum transmisisset, bellum Saracenis illaturus, jamque castra in eorum
        conspectu posuisset, pestilentia decessit in illa oratione: Introibo in domum tuam; adorabo
        ad templum sanctum tuum, et confitebor nomini tuo. Ejus corpus postea Lutétiam Parisiorum
        translatum est, quod in celebri sancti Dionysii templo asservatur et colitur; caput vero in
        sacra æde sanctæ Capellæ. Ipse clarus miraculis a Bonifacio Papa octavo in sanctorum numerum
        est relatus.
      en: >-
        Louis IX, King of France, at the age of twelve years lost his father. He was brought up
        under the godly care of his mother, Blanche of Castile. In the twentieth year of his reign
        he fell grievously sick, and the thought then occurred to him of delivering Jerusalem out of
        the hands of the Moslems. On his health being restored, he received a banner from the Bishop
        of Paris, and crossed the sea with a very great army. In his first battle he put the
        Saracens to flight, but, a great number of the soldiers perishing by disease, he was himself
        conquered and taken prisoner.


        The King afterwards entered into treaty with the Saracens, and he and his army departed in
        peace. He remained five years in the East, during which he redeemed great numbers of
        Christians from slavery among the unbelievers, and also brought many of the unbelievers
        themselves to believe in Christ. Moreover he rebuilt several cities of the Christians at his
        own cost. Meanwhile, his mother departed this life, whereby he was constrained to return
        home, where he gave himself up entirely to works of godliness.


        He built many monasteries, and charitable institutions for the poor. By his alms he relieved
        the needy, and often visited the sick, for whom he not only provided at his own cost, but
        waited on them with his own hands with such things as they wanted. He wore a plain dress and
        constantly chastised his body with hair-cloth and fasting. He crossed the sea to make war
        again upon the Saracens. His camp was pitched in sight of the enemy, but he was seized with
        pestilence, and died uttering the words: I will come into thy house; I will worship toward
        thy holy temple, and praise thy Name. His body was afterwards carried to Paris, and it is
        kept and honoured in the famous Abbey Church of St. Denis, but his head in the oratory called
        La Sainte Chapelle. He was renowned for miracles, and Pope Boniface VIII enrolled his name
        among those of the Saints.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
