# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for the Finding of St. Stephen, Protomartyr
# (Aug 3) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/08-03*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/08-03.txt, English/Sancti/08-03.txt.
#
# Lectio1-3 (Acts 7:51-54, 55-58, 59 + 8:1-2) is one continuous
# scriptural excerpt (Stephen's own martyrdom, from Acts), no internal
# break, combined into one reading with citation. Lectio4-5 (the finding
# of the relics under Honorius) is a second continuous account, combined.
# Lectio6 (St. Augustine, City of God, Bk. 22 ch. 8) is a third, distinct
# source. Responsories are all `@Sancti/12-26` cross-references (this
# day's proper is otherwise borrowed wholesale from St. Stephen's Dec 26
# feast) — not transcribed here since that source file's own responsory
# text wasn't independently pulled for this pass.
id: finding-of-st-stephen
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    citation: { la: "Act 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2", en: "Acts 7:51-54; 55-58; 59; 8:1-2" }
    text:
      la: >-
        Dura cervice et incircumcisis córdibus et áuribus, vos semper Spiritui Sancto resístitis:
        sicut patres vestri, ita et vos. Quem prophetárum non sunt persecúti patres vestri? Et
        occidérunt eos, qui prænuntiábunt de adventu Justi, cujus vos nunc proditores et homicidæ
        fuistis, qui accepístis legem in dispositióne Angelórum et non custodistis. Audiéntes autem
        hæc, disseccabántur córdibus suis, et stridébant déntibus in eum.


        Cum autem esset plenus Spíritu Sancto, inténdens in cælum, vidit glóriam Dei, et Jesum
        stantem a dextris Dei. Et ait: Ecce video cælos apertos, et Fílium hóminis stantem a dextris
        Dei. Exclamántes autem voce magna, continuérunt aures suas, et ímpetum fecérunt unanímiter in
        eum. Et ejiciéntes eum extra civitátem lapidábant: et testes deposuérunt vestiménta sua secus
        pedes adolescentis, qui vocabátur Saulus. Et lapidábant Stephanum, invocántem et dicéntem:
        Dómine Jesu, suscipe spíritum meum.


        Positis autem genibus, clamávit voce magna: Dómine, ne statuas illis hoc peccátum. Et cum hoc
        dixísset, obdormívit in Dómino. Saulus autem erat consentiens neci ejus. Facta est autem in
        illa die persecútio magna in ecclésia quæ erat Jerosolymis; et omnes dispersi sunt per
        regiónes Judææ et Samaríæ, præter Apóstolos. Curavérunt autem Stephanum viri timorati, et
        fecérunt planctum magnum super eum.
      en: >-
        You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as
        your fathers did, so do you also. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
        And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been
        now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and
        have not kept it. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed
        with their teeth at him.


        But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of
        God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens
        opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. And they crying out with a
        loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him. And casting him
        forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the
        feet of a young man, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying:
        Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.


        And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their
        charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his
        death. And at that time there was raised a great persecution against the church which was at
        Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through the countries of Judea, and Samaria, except
        the apostles. And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral, and made great mourning over
        him.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Sanctórum córpora Stephani Protomártyris, Gamaliélis, Nicodémi et Abibónis, quæ diu in
        obscúro ac sórdido loco jacúerant, Honorio imperatóre, Luciáno presbytero divínitus admónito,
        invénta sunt prope Jerosolymam. Cui Gamaliel cum in somnis apparuísset, gravi quadam et
        præclára senis spécie, locum jacéntium córporum commonstrávit, imperans ut Joánnem
        Jerosolymitanum antístitem adíret, agerétque cum eo ut honestius illa córpora sepelirentur.


        Quibus auditis Jerosolymórum antístes, finitimárum urbium epíscopis presbyterisque
        convocatis, ad locum pergit; defossos lóculos ínvenit, unde suavíssimus odor efflabátur.
        Cujus rei fama commóta, magna hóminum multitúdo eo convénit, multique ex variis morbis ægroti
        ac débiles sani et íntegri domum rediérunt. Sacrum autem sancti Stephani corpus, quod summa
        tunc celebritate in sanctam ecclésiam Sion illátum est, sub Theodosio junióre
        Constantinópolim, inde Romam, Pelagio primo summo Pontífice, translátum, in agro Verano in
        sepúlcro sancti Lauréntii Mártyris collocátum est.
      en: >-
        In the reign of the Emperor Honorius, a Priest named Lucian received a message from God, in
        consequence of which discovery was made of the bodies of the Saints Stephen the First
        Martyr, Gamaliel, Nicodemus, and Abibon, which had long been lying unknown and unheeded.
        Lucian was asleep when Gamaliel appeared to him in a dream as a tall comely old man of
        worshipful presence, told him where the bodies were lying, and bade him go to John, Patriarch
        of Jerusalem, and deal with him that they might have more honourable burial.


        When the Patriarch of Jerusalem heard it, he called together Bishops and Priests from the
        neighbouring cities, and betook himself to the place, where he found the tombs hewn in the
        rock, and a right sweet savour flowing forth from them. The thing being noised abroad, a
        great multitude of people came together, and many that were sick and weak of diverse
        diseases returned home whole. The sacred body of holy Stephen was then carried with great
        pomp to the holy Church of Zion. Under the Emperor Theodosius the Younger it was taken to
        Constantinople, and during the Popedom of Pelagius I it was brought to Rome, where it has
        been laid in the sepulchre of the holy Martyr Lawrence in the Veranian Field.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }

  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, City of God, Book 22, ch. 8"
    text:
      la: >-
        Ad aquas Tibilitanas, episcopo afferénte Projecto relíquias Mártyris gloriosíssimi Stephani,
        ad ejus memóriam veniebat magnæ multitúdinis concursus et occúrsus. Ibi cæca mulier, ut ad
        episcopum portántem pígnora sacra ducerétur, orávit: flores, quos ferebat, dedit; recepit,
        óculis admóvit, prótinus vidit. Stupéntibus qui áderant, præibat exsultans, viam carpens et
        viæ ducem ulterius non requírens. Memoráti memóriam Mártyris, quæ pósita est in castello
        Synicénsi, quod Hipponénsi coloniæ vicinum est, ejusdem loci Lucillus epíscopus, pópulo
        præcedénte atque sequente, portábat; fístula, cujus molestia jamdiu laboraverat, et
        familiaríssimi sui médici, qui eam secaret, opperiebátur manus, illíus piæ sarcinæ vectatióne
        repénte sanáta est.
      en: >-
        When the Bishop Projectus brought some relics of that most glorious Martyr Stephen to
        Tibilis, a great multitude came together and went out to meet the shrine. A blind woman
        prayed to be led to the Bishop who was bearing the hallowed deposit. She laid on the relics
        the flowers which she was carrying, took them up again, touched her eyes with them and
        forthwith saw. She went forward rejoicing, at the head of the amazed procession, choosing her
        own path, and needing no more that any should lead her. I remember also the shrine of this
        same Martyr which hath been placed in the town of Synica, hard by this city of Hippo.
        Lucillus, Bishop of that place, was carrying it, with a multitude going before and following
        after when, all of a sudden, by bearing this hallowed burden, he was healed of the emerods,
        from which he was even then suffering, and which were being treated by a physician, an
        intimate friend of his, who was about to cut them.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
