# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin
# (May 29). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-29.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-29.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
# C6a`) -- defers to the Common of a Virgin's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-mary-magdalene-de-pazzi
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Maria Magdalena, illustrióri Pazziórum genere Floréntiæ nata, fere ab
        incunabulis iter perfectiónis arrípuit. Decennis perpetuam virginitátem vovit,
        susceptoque habitu in monastério sanctæ Maríæ Angelórum, ordinis
        Carmelitárum, se ómnium virtútum exemplar exhíbuit. Adeo casta fuit, ut
        quidquid puritátem lǽdere potest, pénitus ignoraverit. Quinquénnium, Deo
        jubénte, solo pane et aqua transegit, exceptis diébus Domínicis, quibus cibis
        quadragesimálibus vescebátur. Corpus suum cilício, flagellis, frígore, inedia,
        vigiliis, nuditate, atque omni pœnárum genere cruciábat.


        Tanto igne divini amoris æstuábat, ut, ei feréndo impar, ingesta aqua pectus
        refrigerare cogerétur. Extra sensus frequenter rapta, diuturnas et admirábiles
        éxtases passa est, in quibus et arcana cæléstia penetrávit, et exímiis a Deo
        grátiis illustráta fuit. His autem muníta longum certamen a princípibus
        tenebrárum sustinuit, árida, desoláta, ab ómnibus derelícta, variisque
        tentatiónibus vexáta; Deo sic permittente, ut invíctæ patiéntiæ ac
        profundíssimæ humilitátis exémplar præbéret.


        Caritáte erga próximum singuláriter enítuit; nam sæpe noctes ducebat insomnes,
        vel obeúndis sorórum ministériis, vel inserviéndo infirmis occupata, quarum
        aliquándo úlcera lambens sanávit. Infidélium et peccatórum perditiónem amare
        deflens, se ad quælibet pro illórum salúte torménta parátam offerébat. Multis
        ante obitum annis, univérsis cæli deliciis, quibus copiose affluébat, heróica
        virtúte renuntians, illud frequénter in ore habébat: Pati, non mori. Tandem
        longa et gravíssima infirmitáte exháusta, transívit ad Sponsum die vigésima
        quinta Maji, anno millésimo sexcentésimo septimo, expleto anno quadragésimo
        primo ætátis suæ. Eam, multis in vita et post mortem miráculis claram, Clemens
        nonus sanctárum Vírginum número adscrípsit: cujus corpus in præséntem diem
        incorrúptum conservátur.
      en: >-
        This Mary Magdalen was born of the noble Florentine family of the Pazzi. She
        was hardly out of her cradle when she set her feet in the path of perfection.
        At ten years of age she made a vow of perpetual virginity, and took the habit of
        the Order of Mount Carmel, in the convent of Saint Mary of the Angels. In that
        sisterhood she was in all ways a pattern to all. She was pure to that degree,
        that she did not even know of the existence of anything which can hurt
        modesty. For the space of five years, by the command of God, she lived upon
        nothing but bread and water, the Lord's Day only excepted, in which she used
        the food which is taken in Lent. She chastised her body with hair-cloth,
        scourging, cold, hunger, watching, nakedness, and all manner of hardships.


        The love of God was so hot within her, that she was sometimes fain to bathe
        her breast with cold water to allay the agitation. She was oftentimes rapt in
        the spirit, and that most marvellously, for whole days at a time, during which
        trances she saw things hidden and heavenly, and was enlightened of God with
        great gifts. But after all these things she had a stern tussling with the
        prince of the darkness of this world, while God allowed her spirit to remain
        dry, deserted, abandoned by all, and tormented with diverse temptations. And
        all that while she remained an example of unconquered patience and the deepest
        lowly-mindedness.


        She was very remarkable for her tender love toward her neighbours. Sometimes
        she went whole nights without sleep, while she was working for the service of
        the sisters, or waiting upon the sick. She sometimes healed sores even by
        licking them. That there should be unbelievers and sinners perishing caused her
        bitter weeping, and she offered herself to God to suffer for their conversion
        whatsoever He chose. For many years, therefore, before her death, her mighty
        charity towards others, made her freely to give up that heavenly joy of spirit,
        wherewith she had once so overflowed. She had often in her mouth the words: To
        suffer, not to die. At length, in the forty-second year of her age, after a
        long and grievous sickness, the Bridegroom came, and she entered with Him into
        the marriage-chamber. Clement IX, finding that God had glorified her by many
        miracles, both during her life and after her death, enrolled her name among
        those of the Holy Virgins. Her body, up to the present day, has never shown the
        least sign of corruption.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
