# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Francis Xavier (Dec 3). Sourced
# directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/12-03.txt,
# English/Sancti/12-03.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
# reading. Nocturn 3: the Gospel citation (Mark 16:15-18) ends "Et
# réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. Gregory
# the Great) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
id: st-francis-xavier
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Francíscus, in Xavério diœcésis Pampelonénsis nobílibus
        paréntibus natus, Parísiis sancto Ignátio sese cómitem et
        discípulum junxit. Ipso magistro eo brevi devénit, ut in
        rerum divinárum contemplatióne defíxus, a terra aliquándo
        sublímis elevarétur: quod illi sacrificánti coram pópuli
        multitúdine aliquóties evénit. Has ánimi delícias magnis sui
        córporis cruciátibus merebátur. Nam interdícto sibi, non
        carnis solum et vini, sed panis quoque tritícei usu, vílibus
        cibis vesci sólitus, per bíduum subínde triduúmque omni
        prorsus aliménto abstínuit. Férreis in se flagéllis ita
        sǽviit, ut sæpe copióso cruóre difflúeret; somnum brevíssimum
        humi jacens carpébat.


        Vitæ austeritáte ac sanctitáte apostólico múneri jam
        matúrus, cum Joánnes tértius Lusitániæ rex áliquot nascéntis
        societátis viros a Paulo tértio pro Indiis postulásset,
        sancti Ignátii hortátu, ab eódem Pontífice ad tantum opus cum
        apostólici núntii potestáte delígitur. Eo appúlsus, íllico
        variárum géntium difficíllimis et váriis linguis divínitus
        instrúctus appáruit. Quin eum quandóque único idiómate ad
        divérsas gentes concionántem, unaquǽque sua lingua loquéntem
        audívit. Províncias innúmeras pédibus semper, et sæpe nudis,
        peragrávit. Fidem Japóniæ et sex áliis regiónibus invéxit.
        Multa centéna hóminum mília ad Christum in Indiis convértit;
        magnósque príncipes, regésque complúres sacro fonte expiávit.
        Et cum tam magna pro Deo ágeret, ea erat humilitáte, ut
        sancto Ignátio, tunc præpósito suo, flexis génibus scríberet.


        Hunc dilatándi Evangélii ardórem multitúdine et excelléntia
        miraculórum Dóminus roborávit. Cæco visum réddidit. Tantum
        marínæ aquæ signo crucis convértit in dulcem, quantum
        quingéntis vectóribus, qui siti adigebántur ad mortem, diu
        suffécit: qua in várias quoque regiónes asportáta, ægri
        plúrimi súbito curáti sunt. Plures mórtuos revocávit ad
        vitam, inter quos prídie sepúltum érui jussum e túmulo
        suscitávit, duósque álios, dum efferréntur, apprehénsa
        eórum manu, paréntibus e féretro vivos restituit Prophetíæ
        spíritu passim afflátus, plúrima et loco et témpore
        remotíssima enuntiávit. Demum in Sanciáno, Sinárum ínsula,
        die secúnda Decémbris, óbiit plenus méritis, laboribúsque
        conféctus. Demórtui cadáver viva calce per multos menses bis
        óbrutum, sed pénitus incorrúptum, odóre et sánguine manávit;
        et ubi Málacam delátum est, pestem sævíssimam conféstim
        exstínxit. Dénique ubíque terrárum novis maximísque fulgéntem
        miráculis Gregórius décimus quintus Sanctis adscrípsit. Pius
        autem décimus ipsum sodalitáti et óperi Propagándæ Fídei
        cæléstem patrónum elégit atque constítuit.
      en: >-
        Francis was of noble family, and was born in the castle of
        Xavier, in the diocese of Pampeluna, (in the year of our Lord
        1506.) He was a companion of St. Ignatius at Paris, and one
        of his earliest disciples. Under his teaching, he learnt to
        become so wrapt in the contemplation of divine things, that
        he was sometimes lifted in ecstasy off the ground, which
        happened to him several times when he was saying Mass in
        public before large congregations. He earned these
        refreshments of the soul by the sharpest punishment of the
        body. He gave up the use not only of meat and wine, but also
        of wheaten bread; he lived on the vilest food, and ate only
        once every two or three days. He used an iron scourge till
        his blood ran freely; he shortened the hours of his rest, and
        lay only on the ground.


        The hardness and holiness of his life had made him meet to be
        called to be an Apostle, and when John III, King of Portugal,
        asked Pope Paul III to send to the Indies some members of the
        then new Society of Jesus, the Pontiff, by the advice of St.
        Ignatius, sent Francis to enter on that vast field of labour
        with the powers of Apostolic Nuncio. He arrived (in India on
        the 6th day of May, in the year 1542.) When he began his
        work, it seemed as though God Himself taught him the many and
        difficult languages of the natives. It even happened that
        when he preached in one language to a mixed congregation of
        different nationalities, each one heard him in his own
        tongue wherein he was born. He travelled over countless
        districts, always walking, and often bare-footed. He
        introduced the faith into Japan, and six other countries. In
        India he turned many hundred thousands to Christ, and
        regenerated many chiefs and kings in the holy font. And
        notwithstanding that he was doing all these great things for
        God's service, so deep was his lowliness that when he wrote
        to St. Ignatius, the General of the Society, he did so on his
        knees.


        God was pleased to support his zeal for spreading the Gospel
        with many and great miracles. He gave sight to a blind man.
        On one occasion the supply of fresh water failed when he was
        at sea, and five hundred sailors were in danger of perishing
        by thirst, but the servant of God, by the sign of the Cross,
        turned salt water into fresh, and they used it for a
        considerable time. Some of this water was also carried into
        different countries, and a great number of sick persons were
        instantaneously cured by it. He called several dead men to
        life, among whom was one who had been buried the day before,
        and who was disinterred by command of the saint; and likewise
        two others who were being carried to the grave, and whom he
        took by the hand and restored living to their parents. He had
        the spirit of prophecy, and foretold many things, remote both
        in place and time. Utterly worn out with his labours, he died
        full of good works in the island of San-Chan in the Canton
        River, (upon the 2nd day of December, in the year of our Lord
        1552.) His body was buried in quick lime, and, being again
        taken up, was again buried in the same, but at the end of
        many months it was found entirely incorrupt, and sweet, and,
        when cut, blood flowed freely from it. From China it was
        carried to Malacca, and, as soon as it reached that place, a
        plague, which was raging there, ceased. At length, when he
        had become famous throughout the whole world for new and
        wonderful miracles, Gregory XV added his name to the list of
        the Saints.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 3
    isGospel: false
    source: "Pope St. Gregory the Great, Homily 29 on the Gospels (Mark 16:15-18)"
    text:
      la: >-
        Potest omnis creaturæ nómine omnis natio Géntium designari.
        Ante enim dictum fuerat: In viam Géntium ne abieritis; nunc
        autem dícitur: Prædicate omni creaturæ: ut scilicet prius a
        Judǽa Apostolórum repulsa prædicátio tunc nobis in adjutórium
        fieret, cum hanc illa ad damnatiónis suæ testimónium superba
        repulísset. Sed cum discipulos ad prædicándum Véritas mittit,
        quid aliud in mundo facit, nisi grana seminis spargit? Et
        pauca grana mittit in semine, ut multárum messium fruges
        recipiat ex nostra fide.


        Neque étenim in universo mundo tanta fidelium messis
        exsúrgeret, si de manu Dómini super rationalem terram illa
        electa grana prædicántium non venissent. Sequitur: Qui
        crediderit et baptizátus fúerit, salvus erit: qui vero non
        crediderit, condemnábitur. Fortasse unusquísque apud
        semetípsum dicat: Ego jam credidi, salvus ero. Verum dicit,
        si fidem opéribus tenet. Vera étenim fides est, quæ in hoc,
        quod verbis dicit, móribus non contradicit. Hinc est enim
        quod de quibusdam falsis fidelibus Paulus dicit: Qui
        confiténtur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant.


        Signa autem eos qui credituri sunt, hæc sequéntur: In nómine
        meo dæmónia ejícient, linguis loquéntur novis, serpéntes
        tollent: et si mortiferum quid biberint, non eis nocébit:
        super ægros manus impónent, et bene habébunt. Numquidnam,
        fratres mei, quia ista signa non fácitis, minime creditis?
        Sed hæc necessaria in exordio Ecclésiæ fuérunt. Ut enim ad
        fidem cresceret multitúdo credéntium, miraculis fuerat
        nutriénda: quia et nos, cum arbústa plantamus, tamdiu eis
        aquam infúndimus, quoúsque ea in terra jam coaluisse
        videámus: et si semel radícem fixerint, irrigátio cessabit.
        Hinc est enim quod Paulus dicit: Linguæ in signum sunt non
        fidelibus, sed infidelibus.
      en: >-
        By the words every creature we may understand every tribe of
        the Gentiles. Of aforetime it had been said, Go not into the
        way of the Gentiles, (Matth. x. 5,) but now, Preach the
        Gospel to every creature, that, since the Jews had proudly
        rejected the preaching of the Apostles, that might become our
        gain which was the seal of their condemnation. But when the
        Eternal Truth sendeth forth His disciples to preach, what
        doth He but scatter seed over the field of the world? He
        scattereth abroad a few grains for seed, that He may
        afterward reap an abundant harvest in our faith.


        The great harvest of faithful souls throughout the whole
        world would never have sprung up, if the hand of the Lord had
        not first scattered those chosen grains of preachers over the
        reasonable soil of men's minds. Then is written, He that
        believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that
        believeth not, shall be damned. Now, perchance, thou sayest
        in thine heart I believe, and therefore I shall be saved.
        True, if to thy faith thou dost add works. He only hath a
        living faith whose life doth not give the lie to his
        profession. It is of this that Paul speaketh, where he saith
        of certain vain believers, They profess that they know God;
        but in works they deny Him. (Tit. i. 16.)


        And these signs shall follow them that believe In My name
        they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new
        tongues, they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
        deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on
        the sick, and they shall recover. My brethren, these signs do
        not follow us. Do we, then, not believe? Nay. The truth is,
        these things were needful when the Church was young. That she
        might grow by the increase of the faithful, she needed to be
        nourished with miracles. So we, when we plant a young tree,
        continually water and tend it, till we see that it hath taken
        firm root in the earth but when once it hath taken firm root,
        it can grow of itself. Hence Paul saith of tongues Tongues
        are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that
        believe not. ~(i Cor. xiv. 22.)
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
