# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 26)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-26*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-26.txt, English/Sancti/01-26.txt.
# Lectio4 (St. Jerome's biographical note, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis
# cap. 17) is a genuinely distinct source from Lectio5-6 (a cross-ref,
# `@Sancti/07-13:Lectio5/6` — St. Ambrose's Exposition on Psalm 118,
# borrowed from St. Anacletus's own file but proper to this day too) —
# kept as two separate readings. Lectio5-6 combined into one (continuous,
# no internal break). Lectio7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr (skipped, not
# proper). No responsory given in either source file.
id: st-polycarp
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 17"
    text:
      la: >-
        Polycárpus, Joánnis Apóstoli discípulus et ab eo Smyrnæ epíscopus ordinátus, totíus Asiæ
        princeps fuit, quippe qui nonnúllos Apostolórum et eórum qui víderant Dóminum, magístros
        habúerit et víderit. Hic propter quasdam super die Paschæ quæstiónes, sub imperatóre
        Antoníno Pio, Ecclésiam in Urbe regénte Anicéto, Romam venit; ubi plúrimos credéntium,
        Marciónis et Valentíni persuasióne decéptos, redúxit ad fidem. Cumque ei fortúito óbviam
        fuísset Márcion et díceret: Cognóscis nos? respóndit: Cognósco primogénitum diáboli. Póstea
        vero, regnánte Marco Antoníno et Lúcio Aurélio Cómmodo, quarta post Nerónem persecutióne,
        Smyrnæ, sedénte procónsule et univérso pópulo in amphitheátro advérsus eum personánte, igni
        tráditus est. Scripsit ad Philippénses valde útilem epístolam, quæ usque hódie in Asiæ
        convéntu légitur.
      en: >-
        Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John, and was consecrated by him Bishop of Smyrna. He
        was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia, because he had been taught by several
        of the Apostles, and other persons who had seen the Lord. During the reign of the Emperor
        Antoninus Pius, and while Anicetus presided over the Church of Rome, Polycarp came thither
        to discuss some questions regarding the time for observing Easter. He found some heretics
        at Rome, who had been led astray by the doctrine of Marcion and Valentine, and brought back
        many of them to the faith. One day Marcion met him by accident, and said to him: Do you
        recognise me? whereto he replied: I recognise the devil's eldest son. Some time after, in
        the reign of Mark Antonine and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, during the fourth persecution
        since Nero, when the Pro-consul was ruling in Smyrna, the whole population being assembled
        in the theatre, clamoured against Polycarp, and to please them he was burnt. He wrote an
        extremely useful Epistle to the Philippians, which is publicly read in the Churches of Asia
        even to this day.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Exposition on Psalm 118, Sermon 21"
    text:
      la: >-
        Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum. Bene hoc Martyr
        dicit, quod injuste persecutionum tormenta sustineat: qui nihil rapuerit, nullum violentus
        oppresserit, nullius sanguinem fuderit, nullius torum putaverit esse violandum: qui nihil
        legibus debeat, et graviora latronum sustinere cogatur supplicia: qui loquatur juste, et non
        audiatur: qui loquatur plena salutis, et impugnetur: ut possit dicere, Cum loquebar illis,
        impugnabant me gratis. Gratis igitur persecutionem patitur, qui impugnatur sine crimine
        impugnatur ut noxius, cum sit in tali confessione laudabilis: impugnatur quasi veneficus,
        qui in nomine Domini gloriatur, cum pietas virtutum omnium fundamentum sit.


        Vere frustra impugnatur, qui apud impios et infidos impietatis arcessitur, cum fidei sit
        magister. Verum qui gratis impugnatur, fortis debet esse et constans, quomodo ergo
        subtexuit: Et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum? Trepidare infirmitatis est, timoris atque
        formidinis. Sed est étiam infirmitas ad salutem, est étiam timor sanctorum. Timete Dominum
        omnes sancti ejus: et, Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum. Qua ratione beatus? Quia in mandatis
        ejus cupit nimis.
      en: >-
        Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. These
        are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments of the persecutors,
        who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man, who hath shed the blood of no
        man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man, who is debtor to the laws in nothing,
        and who is punished more grievously than if he were a robber: who speaketh righteousness,
        and there is none that will hear: who speaketh salvation, and all men fight against him: who
        is able to say: "When I spoke unto them, they fought against me without a cause." (Ps.
        cxix. 7.) They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin to his charge; they
        fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own acknowledgment righteous: they fight
        against him as a warlock, who glorieth in the name of the Lord, and who doeth all things
        well because he doeth all things for God's sake.


        Verily, him that is fought against without a cause it behoveth to be strong and patient.
        Wherefore then saith he: My heart standeth in awe of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak,
        the timid, and the fearful. But there is also a weakness unto salvation, there is a fear
        which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all ye His Saints. (Ps. xxxiii. 10.) And again:
        Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. (Ps. cxi. 1.) And wherefore is he blessed? because
        he delighteth greatly in His commandments.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
