# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Donatus, Bishop and Martyr (Aug 7) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/08-07.txt is a different, later
# saint (St. Cajetan, canonized 1671) who displaced Donatus on the
# general calendar's own Aug 7 slot; his content survives at the
# suffixed sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
# wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-07o.txt, English/Sancti/08-07o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
id: st-donatus
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Donatus, paréntibus propter Jesu Christi fidem interfectis, Arrétium in Etrúriam cum
        Hilarino monacho ex fuga se cóntulit: cujus étiam urbis epíscopus creátus est. Ubi, cum a
        Quadratiáno præfecto in Juliáni persecutióne uterque idola venerari juberétur, negántibus
        illis se tam nefárium scelus commissuros, Hilarinus in óculis Quadratiáni tamdiu fustibus
        cæsus est, dum efflaret ánimam; Donatus, veheménter et ipse cruciatus, gládio percússus est.
        Quorum córpora a Christiánis prope eam urbem honorifice sepúlta sunt.
      en: >-
        Donatus was the child of a father and mother who had both been slain for Jesus Christ's
        sake. He fled with the monk Hilarinus to Arezzo in Tuscany, of which city he afterwards
        became Bishop. There the Prefect Quadratian, during the persecution under Julian, commanded
        both Hilarinus and Donatus to worship idols, and when they both refused to commit such
        abominable iniquity, Hilarinus was beaten with clubs before the eyes of Quadratian, until he
        gave up the ghost. Donatus also was savagely tortured, and slain with the sword. The
        Christians buried their bodies honourably hard by the city.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
