# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr (May 7)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/05-07*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-07.txt, English/Sancti/05-07.txt.
# Lectio4-6 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous vita account,
# no internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio7-9 (not
# present in this file, implicitly Common) skipped. No responsory given.
id: st-stanislaus
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Stanislaus Polonus, apud Cracoviam nobili genere natus et piis paréntibus, qui antea per
        annos trigínta stériles, illum a Deo precibus impetrarunt, ab ineunte ætate futuræ
        sanctitátis specimen dedit. Adoléscens bonis artibus operam navávit, multumque in sacra
        cánonum et theologíæ doctrina profecit. Paréntibus mórtuis, amplum patrimónium paupéribus
        distríbuit, vitæ monasticæ desidério. Sed Dei providéntia canonicus Cracoviénsis et
        concionátor factus a Lampérto epíscopo, in ejus póstea locum, quamvis invitus, suffícitur.
        Quo in múnere, ómnium pastorálium virtútum laude, et præcípue misericórdia in páuperes,
        enítuit.


        Erat tum Poloniæ rex Bolesláus, quem gráviter offendit, quod illíus notam libidinem publice
        arguebat. Quare in solemni regni convéntu Stanisláum per calumniam in judícium coram se
        vocari curat, tamquam pagum occuparet, quem ecclésiæ suæ nómine coémerat. Quod cum neque
        tabulis probare posset, et testes veritátem cidere timerent, spondet epíscopus, se Petrum
        pagi venditórem, qui triennio ante obíerat, intra dies tres in judícium adducturum.
        Conditióne cum risu accepta, vir Dei toto triduo jejuniis et oratióni incumbit; ipso
        sponsiónis die, post oblátum Missæ sacrifícium, Petrum e sepúlcro surgere jubet; qui statim
        redivivus, episcopum ad regium tribunal euntem sequitur, ibique, rege et ceteris stupore
        attónitis, de agro a se véndito et pretio rite sibi ab episcopo persoluto testimónium dicit,
        atque íterum in Dómino obdormívit.


        At Boleslaum, frustra sæpe admónitum, Stanisláus tandem a fidelium communióne rémovet. Ille,
        iracúndia furens, milites in ecclésiam immíttit, ut sanctum episcopum confodiant; qui, ter
        conati, occúlta vi, tertio divinitus sunt depulsi. Postremo ímpius rex sacerdotem Dei,
        Hostiam immaculátam ad altáre offeréntem, sua manu obtruncat. Corpus, membratim concisum et
        per agros projectum, áquilæ a feris mirabíliter defendunt. Mox canonici Cracovienses sparsa
        membra, nocturni de cælo splendoris indicio cólligunt, et suis locis apte disponunt; quæ
        súbito ita inter se copuláta sunt, ut nulla vúlnerum vestígia exstarent. Multis præterea
        miraculis servi sui sanctitátem Deus declarávit post ejus mortem: quibus permotus Innocentius
        quartus, summus Pontifex, illum in Sanctórum númerum rétulit. Clemens vero octavus, Pontifex
        maximus, sancti Stanislai festo die in Románum Breviárium reláto, gloriósi Mártyris memóriam
        dúplici Officio ubíque celebrári jussit.
      en: >-
        This Stanislaw was a Pole. He was born of a noble family at Cracow. His godly parents, who
        had been childless for thirty years, obtained him from God by prayer, and from his earliest
        years he gave token of the holiness of life which afterwards marked him. When he was a young
        man he applied himself heartily to all useful learning, and was deeply read in the sacred
        teaching of the Canons and of Theological science. After the death of his parents he
        inherited great possessions, but he sold them, and distributed the price to the poor,
        purposing himself to become a monk. However, by the Providence of God, Lampert, Bishop of
        Cracow, named him Canon of the Cathedral Church of that diocese, and Preacher in the same,
        and afterwards he was elected, against his own will, to succeed to Lampert's place. In this
        office he was a bright and shining light of all virtues that become a shepherd of souls,
        especially of tenderness toward the poor.


        At that time Boleslaw II was King of Poland, and him Stanislaw grievously offended, because
        he openly rebuked him for his shameless lust. Wherefore, in a solemn Parliament of his
        kingdom, he made Stanislaw to be brought before him on a false accusation of having taken
        wrongfully a certain village, which he had bought in the name of his Church. The Bishop
        could not rebut this charge by documents, and the witnesses were in too great fear to speak
        the truth. Stanislaw therefore said that in three days he would produce before the
        judgment-seat one Peter, from whom he had bought the village, and who had been dead three
        years. His enemies laughed thereat, and closed with his proposal, and the man of God gave
        himself up to fasting and prayer for three days. On the day which he had promised, after he
        had offered up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, he commanded Peter to rise from the grave.
        Peter then immediately came to life, arose, and followed Stanislaw to the King's
        judgment-seat, where before the King and all others, who were struck dumb with amazement, he
        bore witness of the sale of the village, and the honest payment of the price by the Bishop,
        and then again fell asleep in the Lord.


        Stanislaw often rebuked Boleslaw, but when he found it was in vain, he at last cut him off
        from the communion of Christ's faithful people. Thereupon Boleslaw became frenzied with
        rage, and sent soldiers to the Church to murder the holy Bishop. This they thrice essayed to
        do, but God was pleased that they should be held back by some unseen power. In the end, the
        ungodly King with his own hand cut off the head of the Priest of God as he was standing at
        the Altar offering up the Sacrifice without spot. His body was hewn into pieces and strewn
        about the fields, but the eagles strangely kept the beasts of prey off it. The Canons of the
        Cathedral of Cracow soon gathered together the mutilated and scattered limbs, which they
        were enabled to see by a lightness which overspread the sky at night, and they fitted them
        together, each into his place. The relics immediately so joined themselves one to the other,
        that no marks of wounds remained. Moreover, God was pleased to manifest the holiness of His
        servant by many wonders after his death, by the which being moved, Pope Innocent IV added
        his name to those of the Saints, and the Supreme Pontiff Clement VIII gave his Feast a place
        in the Service Book of the Church of Rome, commanding that the memory of so glorious a
        Martyr should be everywhere celebrated under the Double rite.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
