# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Eleutherius, Pope and Martyr (May 26)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/05-26.txt is a different, later
# saint (St. Philip Neri, canonized 1622) who displaced Eleutherius on
# the general calendar's own May 26 slot; his content survives at the
# suffixed sibling file (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical
# wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-26o.txt, English/Sancti/05-26o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
# Note: the Latin and English texts here are noticeably not a literal
# 1:1 translation of each other (the English is considerably more
# detailed) — both are transcribed as-given from their respective source
# files rather than reconciled, same as elsewhere in this project when
# the two language tracks diverge.
id: st-eleutherius
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Eleutherius, Nicopoli in Græcia natus, Aniceti Pontificis diaconus, Commodo imperatóre,
        præfuit Ecclésiæ. Huic, inítio pontificatus, supplices litteræ venérunt a Lucio Britannórum
        rege, ut se ac suos in Christianórum númerum reciperet. Quam ob rem Fugatium et Damianum,
        doctos et pios viros, misit in Britanniam, per quos rex et réliqui fidem susciperent. Hoc
        Pontifice, Irenæus Polycarpi discipulus, Romam veniens, ab eo benígne acceptus est. Quo
        témpore summa pace et quiete fruebátur Ecclésia Dei; ac per totum orbem terrárum, maxime
        Romæ, fides propagabátur. Vixit Eleutherius in pontificatu annos quindecim, dies viginti
        tres. Fecit ordinatiónes tres mense Decembri, quibus creávit presbyteros duodecim, diaconos
        octo, episcopos per diversa loca quindecim: sepultúsque est in Vaticano prope corpus sancti
        Petri.
      en: >-
        Eleutherius was a Greek by race, and was born at Nicopolis, a city of Epirus. His father's
        name was Abundius. He was a Priest of the holy Roman Church. During the reign of the Emperor
        Marcus Aurelius Augustus, after the death of Soter, he was chosen Bishop of Rome by the
        votes of all the clergy. He discharged the duties of this office excellently, and with all
        praise, for fifteen years and twenty-three days. He held three ordinations in the month of
        December, wherein he ordained twelve Priests, eight Deacons, and fifteen Bishops for diverse
        places. He was consulted by the church of Lyons by letter concerning certain questions. The
        bearer of these letters was that most learned Irenaeus. Him he hospitably welcomed, and to
        him he opened the traditions of the Apostles which the Church of Rome had kept pure. He
        condemned the superstitious dry-meat system of the Montanists. He laid down excellent rules
        as to the right form of church sentences. When Marcion and Valentine had oftentimes relapsed
        he cast them out of the Church. In his days the Church enjoyed the utmost peace, and he
        brought many even of the chiefest of Rome to believe in Christ. He received letters by
        messengers from Lleurwg, Prince of the Britons, praying him for ministers of the Word of
        God, and he sent unto him Fagan and Dyfan, Priests of the Roman Church, through whose hands
        the Prince himself, with his whole household and nearly all his subjects, were born again in
        the sacred washing of regeneration. At length, when he had done all these things and others
        for the worship of God, Eleutherius died a holy death in the reign of the Emperor Commodus,
        and was buried upon the Vatican Mount.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
