# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Vitalis, Martyr (Apr 28) — the
# correct Tridentine file is the suffixed `Sancti/04-28o.txt` (the
# plain `Sancti/04-28.txt` is St. Paul of the Cross instead, a later
# canonization occupying the same MM-DD slot) — same "check every
# suffix variant" wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints). `SanctiM/04-28oc.txt` matches this same
# suffix and Officium ("S. Vitalis, Martyris"), and inherits the whole
# day (`@Sancti/04-28o`, confirmed no Nocturn 2/3 override) — a genuine
# SanctiM match, sourced from the Tridentine track (see memory
# vu-matins-sanctim-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/04-28o.txt, English/Sancti/04-28o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-vitalis
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Vitalis miles, sanctorum Gervasii et Protasii pater, una cum Paulino judice Ravennam
        ingressus, cum vidisset Ursicinum medicum ob christianæ fidei confessionem ductum ad
        supplicium, paululum in tormentis titubare, exclamavit: Ursicine medice, qui alios
        curare solitus es, cave ne te mortis æternæ jaculo conficias. Qua voce confirmatus
        Ursicinus, martyrium fortiter subivit. Quare Paulinus incensus Vitalem comprehendi
        jubet, et equuleo tortum, atque in profundam foveam demersum, lapidibus obrui. Quo facto
        quidam Apollinis sacerdos, qui Paulinum in Vitalem incitarat, oppressus a dæmone, clamare
        cœpit: Tu me nimium Vitalis Christi Martyr incendis: et illo æstu jactatus, se
        præcipitavit in flumen.
      en: >-
        Vitalis was a soldier, and the father of the holy Martyrs Gervase and Protase. He went to
        Ravenna with Paulinus the judge, and there saw the physician Ursicinus led out to die,
        because he owned to being a believer in Christ. As the torments went on, Ursicinus seemed
        to waver a little, and Vitalis cried out to him, Ursicinus! as a physician thou hast been
        used to heal other men's bodies, take heed lest thou let thine own soul die eternally.
        These words encouraged Ursicinus, and he endured bravely in his testimony even unto the
        end; but Paulinus was filled with fury, and caused Vitalis to be seized, tormented on the
        rack, and finally thrown into a pit and buried under an heap of stones. When it was over,
        a certain priest of Apollo, who had urged on Paulinus against Vitalis, was seized by the
        devil, and began to cry out, Vitalis, Vitalis, thou art Christ's Martyr, but thou makest
        me to burn, thou makest me to burn, until in that phrenzy he threw himself into the river.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
