# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, Second Feast
# (Jan 28) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-28.txt is a
# different, later saint (St. Peter Nolasco) who displaced this second
# Agnes feast on the general calendar's own Jan 28 slot; her content
# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-28t.txt, English/Sancti/01-28t.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-agnes-secunda
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Beáta Agnes, paréntibus ad ejus sepúlcrum assidue vigilántibus, quadam nocte choro
        vírginum comitáta cum apparuísset, sic ad eos locuta dícitur: Ne me, paréntes, mortuam
        lugeátis; nam una cum his virgínibus vivo apud illum in cælis, quem in terris tota mente
        diléxi. Cum aliquot post annos Constantia, Constantini imperatóris fília, insanábili
        úlceri medicinam quærens, nondum christiana ad idem sepúlcrum accessísset; obdórmiscens
        sibi audíre visa est vocem hanc Agnetis: Constanter age, Constántia: crede in Jesum
        Christum Fílium Dei, qui te sanam fáciet. Quæ sanata, paulo post una cum multis ex família
        imperatóris baptismum suscípiens, ibi ecclésiam nómine beátæ Agnétis ædificávit.
      en: >-
        The night when the parents of the blessed Agnes were watching at her grave, she appeared
        to them in company with a band of virgins, and said to them: Father and Mother, weep not
        for me as though I were dead; for now these virgins and I live together in Him Whose love
        was my whole life upon earth. Some years afterwards, Constance, the daughter of the Emperor
        Constantine, being sick of an incurable ulcer, betook herself to the said grave, although
        she was not yet a Christian, and as she lay by it and slept, she seemed to hear the voice
        of Agnes, saying to her: Constance, be of good courage, believe in Jesus Christ the Son of
        God, and He will make thee whole. The Princess, being healed, was baptized, along with many
        others of the Emperor's family and household, and afterwards built over the grave of the
        blessed Agnes a Church named in her honour.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
