# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Leo I ("the Great"), Pope, Confessor,
# Doctor (Apr 11) — SanctiM/04-11.txt inherits the whole day
# (`@Sancti/04-11`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own
# vita 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/04-11.txt, English/Sancti/04-11.txt.
# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine
# source break. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-leo-i
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Leo primus, Etruscus, eo tempore præfuit Ecclesiæ, cum rex Hunnorum Attila, cognomento
        Flagellum Dei, in Italiam invadens, Aquilejam triennii obsidione captam diripuit et
        incendit. Unde cum Romam ardenti furore raperetur, jamque copias, ubi Mincius in Padum
        influit, trajicere pararet, occurrit ei Leo, malorum Italiæ impendentium misericordia
        permotus: cujus divina eloquentia persuasum est Attilæ, ut regrederetur. Qui interrogatus
        a suis, quid esset quod præter consuetudinem tam humiliter Romani Pontificis imperata
        faceret; respondit, se astantem quemdam alium, illo loquente, sacerdotali habitu veritum
        esse, sibi stricto gladio minitantem mortem, nisi Leoni obtemperaret. Quare in Pannoniam
        reversus est.


        Leo autem Romæ singulari omnium lætitia exceptus, paulo post invadenti Urbem Genserico,
        eadem eloquentiæ vi et sanctitatis opinione persuasit, ut ab incendio, ignominiis, ac
        cædibus abstineret. Sed cum Ecclesiam a multis hæresibus oppugnari, maximeque a
        Nestorianis et Eutychianis exagitari videret; ad eam purgandam, et in fide catholica
        confirmandam, concilium Chalcedonense indixit, ubi sexcentis triginta coactis episcopis,
        Eutyches et Dioscorus, et iterum Nestorius condemnati sunt: ejusdemque concilii decreta
        sua auctoritate confirmavit.


        His actis, sanctus Pontifex se ad reficiendas et ædificandas ecclesias convertit. Cujus
        suasu Demetria, pia femina, sancti Stephani ecclesiam construxit in suo fundo via
        Latina, tertio ab Urbe milliario: ipse via Appia sub nomine sancti Cornelii alteram
        condidit. Multas præterea et sacras ædes, et sacra earum vasa restituit. In tribus
        basilicis, Petri, Pauli, et Constantiniana, cameras exstruxit: ædificavit monasterium
        vicinum basilicæ sancti Petri: sepulcris Apostolorum custodes adhibuit, quos cubicularios
        appellavit. Statuit, ut in actione mysterii diceretur: Sanctum sacrificium, immaculatam
        hostiam. Sanxit, ne monacha benedictum capitis velamen reciperet, nisi quadraginta
        annorum virginitatem probasset. His et aliis præclare gestis, cum multa sancte et
        luculenter scripsisset, quarto Idus Novembris obdormivit in Domino. Sedit in pontificatu
        annos viginti unum, mensem unum, dies tredecim.
      en: >-
        Leo was an Etruscan who ruled the Church at the time when Attila, king of the Huns, whose
        surname is the Scourge of God, invaded Italy, and after a siege of three years, took,
        sacked, and burnt Aquileia. Thence he was hurrying to Rome, on fire with anger, and his
        troops were already preparing to cross the Po, at the place where that river is joined by
        the Mincio, when he was met by Leo, moved with compassion at the thought of the ruin which
        hung over Italy. By his God-given eloquence, Attila was persuaded to turn back, and when he
        was afterwards asked by his servants why, contrary to his custom, he had so meekly yielded
        to the entreaties of the Bishop of Rome, he answered that he had been alarmed by a figure
        dressed like a Priest, which had appeared at the side of Leo while he was speaking, holding
        a drawn sword, and had made as though to kill the king unless he consented. And so he
        returned into Pannonia.


        Leo went back to Rome, where he was received with rejoicing by all men. A while later,
        Genseric entered the city, but Leo, by the power of his eloquence and the authority of his
        holy life, persuaded him to abstain from fire, insult, and slaughter. When Leo beheld how
        the Church was assailed by many heresies, and in dire trouble through the Nestorians and
        Eutychians, to purify the same and establish her in the Catholic Faith, he called the
        Council of Chalcedon, where, in an assembly of six hundred and thirty Bishops, Nestorius
        was again condemned, along with Eutyches and Dioscorus; the decrees of which Council were
        confirmed by the authority of Leo.


        After these matters, this holy Pope set himself to the restoration and building of
        Churches. By his advice that godly woman Demetria built the Church of St. Stephen upon
        her farm on the Latin Road, at the third milestone from the city. He himself built another
        Church upon the Appian Way, which Church is called that of St. Cornelius. He restored
        likewise many other Churches, and the holy vessels used therein. He built Clergy-houses at
        the three Basilicas of Peter, Paul, and Constantine. He built a monastery hard by the
        Basilica of St. Peter. He appointed for the graves of the Apostles certain keepers, whom
        he called the Chamberlains of the said Apostles. He ordained that in the action of the
        Mystery should be uttered the words An holy sacrifice, an offering without spot. He
        ordered that no nun should have the covering of her head blessed until she had made trial
        of her virginity for forty years. After doing all these and other illustrious works, and
        after he had written much that is both godly and easy to be understood, he fell asleep in
        the Lord on the eleventh day of April. He held the Papal See for twenty years, one month,
        and thirteen days.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
