# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian,
# Bishop, Martyrs (Sep 16) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/09-16*.txt
# at all). web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/09-16.txt,
# English/Sancti/09-16.txt. Lectio4-5 (Cornelius's own vita) combined
# into one reading, no internal break. Lectio6 (Cyprian's vita, drawn
# from St. Jerome's De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67) is a
# genuinely distinct source/saint, kept separate. No responsory given.
id: ss-cornelius-and-cyprian
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Cornélius Romanus, Gallo et Volusiáno imperatóribus pontificátum gerens, cum Lucina, femina
        sanctíssima, córpora Apostolórum Petri et Pauli e catacumbis in opportuniórem locum
        tránstulit; ac Pauli corpus Lucina in suo prædio via Ostiénsi, prope eum locum, ubi fuerat
        gládio percússus, collocávit; Cornélius Principis Apostolórum corpus non longe inde, ubi
        crucifixus fuerat, repósuit. Quod cum ad imperatóres delátum esset, et Pontifice auctore
        multos fíeri Christiános, mittitur is in exsílium ad Centumcellas; ubi eum sanctus Cyprianus,
        epíscopus Carthaginiénsis, per litteras est consolatus.


        Hoc autem christianæ caritátis offícium cum frequens alter alteri persólveret, deteriórem in
        partem id accipiéntes imperatóres, accersítum Romam Cornelium tamquam de majestáte reum
        plumbátis cædi, raptumque ad Martis simulacrum, ei sacrificáre jubent. Quam impietátem cum
        ille detestarétur, ei caput abscissum est décimo octavo Kalendas Octobris. Cujus corpus
        beáta Lucina, clericis adjutóribus, humávit in arenaria prædii sui prope cœmetérium Callísti.
        Vixit in pontificatu annos circiter duos.
      en: >-
        Cornelius was a Roman who held the Papacy during the reign of the Emperors Gallus and
        Volusian. He, and that most holy Lady Lucina, took the bodies of the Apostles Peter and Paul
        out of the Catacombs and put them in more convenient places. Lucina laid the body of Paul in
        a farm of her own upon the road to Ostia, hard by the place where he had received the
        sword-stroke. Cornelius placed that of the Prince of the Apostles hard by where he had been
        crucified. When this was told to the Emperors, and likewise that Cornelius was the means of
        making many Christians, he was banished to Civitavecchia, where Cyprian, the holy Bishop of
        Carthage, comforted him by letters.


        They continued thus to write often one to the other, till the Emperors took in bad part these
        exchanges of Christian love, and sent for Cornelius to Rome. There they commanded him to be
        lashed with scourges loaded with lead as though he were a traitor, and then to be carried to
        offer sacrifice before the image of Mars. He firmly refused to commit this great wickedness,
        and was forthwith beheaded, upon the 14th day of September. The blessed Lucina, with the help
        of the clergy, buried his body in the sand-pit on her own farm, near the Cemetery of
        Callistus. He lived as Pope about two years.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 67"
    text:
      la: >-
        Cyprianus, Afer, primum gloriose rhetoricam docuit. Exinde, suadénte presbytero Cæcílio, a
        quo et cognoméntum sortitus est, christianus factus, omnem substantiam suam paupéribus
        erogávit. Ac post non multum témporis, eléctus in presbyterum, étiam epíscopus
        Carthaginiénsis constitútus est. Hujus ingenii superfluum est indicem téxere, cum sole
        clarióra sint ejus opera. Passus est sub Valeriáno et Gallieno princípibus, persecutióne
        octava, eodem die quo Romæ Cornélius, sed non eodem anno.
      en: >-
        Cyprian was an African. He was first distinguished as a teacher of Rhetoric. He afterwards
        became a Christian at the persuasion of the Priest Caecilius, whose surname he took, and
        parted all his goods among the poor. It was not long before he was chosen a Priest, and then
        made Bishop of Carthage. It would be idle to enlarge upon his wit, seeing that his works are
        as well known as the sun. He suffered under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, in the
        eighth persecution, and upon the same day, though not in the same year, that Cornelius
        testified at Rome.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
