# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Bernardine of Siena, Confessor
# (May 20). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-20.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-20.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
# C5`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not
# transcribed here.
id: st-bernardine-of-siena
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Bernardinus Albizesca, nobili Senénsi família ortus, ab ineunte ætate non
        obscura sanctitátis dedit indícia; nam a piis paréntibus honeste educatus,
        neglectis puerílibus ludis, inter prima grammaticæ stúdia pietátis opéribus
        ánimum inténdit, jejuniis, oratióni, et beatíssimæ Vírginis cultui præcipue
        addictus. Misericórdia vero in páuperes fuit insígnis. Quæ quidem ómnia
        procedénte témpore quo mélius posset excólere, eórum número adscribi vóluit, qui
        Senis in hospitali domo beátæ Maríæ de Scala Deo inserviunt, unde complures
        sanctitáte celebres viri prodiérunt. Ibi corporis afflictatióne et ægrotántium
        cura, dum atrox pestiléntia grassarétur, incredibili caritate sese exercuit.
        Inter ceteras autem virtútes castitátem, egregia forma repugnante, sanctíssime
        custodívit adeo ut eo præsénte nemo umquam, ne impudentíssimus quidem, verbum
        minus honestum proferre auderet.


        Gravi morbo tentatus, eoque ad quatuor menses patientíssime toleráto, demum
        incolumis, de religiosæ vitæ instituto capesséndo deliberare cœpit. Quo ut sibi
        viam muniret, ædiculam in extrema urbe conduxit; in quam cum sese abdidísset,
        asperrimam omni ex parte vitam trahebat, Deum assidue orans, ut, quid sibi
        sequéndum esset, osténderet. Quare divinitus factus est, ut beáti Francisci
        ordinem præ ceteris optaret, in quo humilitate, patiéntia aliisque religiosi
        hóminis virtútibus excelluit. Id cum cœnobii rector animadverteret, jamque antea
        Bernardini doctrinam et sacrárum litterárum perítiam perspectam haberet,
        prædicándi onus eidem impósuit: quo humillime suscepto, cum se minus idoneum
        agnosceret ob vocis exilitátem ac raucitátem, Dei ope implorata, non sine
        miraculo ejusmodi impediménto liberátus est.


        Cumque ea témpora vitiis criminibúsque redundarent, et cruentis factiónibus in
        Italia, divina humanaque ómnia permixta essent, Bernardinus urbes atque oppida
        concursans, in nómine Jesu, quem semper in ore et in péctore gerebat, collapsam
        pietátem moresque verbo et exemplo magna ex parte restituit. Quo factum est, ut
        præcláræ civitátes eum sibi episcopum a summo Pontifice postularent; quod ille
        munus invicta humilitate constantíssime rejécit. Denique vir Dei imménsis
        labóribus exhaustus, multis magnisque editis miraculis, libris étiam pie
        docteque conscriptis, cum vixísset annos sex ac sexagínta, in urbe Aquila in
        Vestinis beato fine quiévit. Quem novis in dies coruscántem signis, anno post
        obitum sexto, Nicolaus quintus Pontifex maximus in Sanctórum númerum retulit.
      en: >-
        This Bernardine was born of the noble family of the Albizeschi, in the Republic
        of Siena. His saintliness began to manifest itself from his earliest years. He
        was well brought up by a godly father and mother, and even when he was being
        taught the first rudiments of worldly learning, he used to give up his
        play-time to occupy himself with devout works, being much drawn to fasting,
        prayer, and the devotion to the most Blessed Virgin. He abounded likewise in
        tenderness for the poor. As time went on, that he might the more entirely do
        these things, it was his will to enroll himself among those who work in the
        Hospital of Blessed Mary, called "of the Ladder," at Sienna. There, during the
        raging of an horrible distemper, he laboured with marvellous charity and great
        bodily suffering, in serving the sick. In bodily presence he was a very goodly
        person, but, with all his other virtues, he kept ever so holy a guard over his
        purity, that it soon came to pass that no one, however shameless, dared to say
        an unseemly word in his presence.


        He suffered a severe sickness, and when, after bearing it with the utmost
        patience, he recovered his health, he began to think of embracing some
        institute of the religious life. To make his way sure, he built a little hut in
        the outskirts of the city, where he hid himself and led a life of hardships of
        all kinds, continuing instant in prayer to God that He would be pleased to make
        clear to him what path he should follow. And so it came to pass by God's will
        that he chose the Order of Blessed Francis. In that Order he shone a bright
        instance of lowliness, long-suffering, and every other grace of a religious
        man. When the superior of his convent saw this, and had already considered what
        his teaching and knowledge of sacred learning were, he laid on Bernardine the
        duty of preaching. This the Saint humbly accepted, and finding that his
        usefulness was much impaired by his having a shrill, harsh voice, he betook him
        to implore the help of God, Who was pleased, not without a miracle, to free him
        from this drawback.


        Those were times fruitful in vices and crimes and the bloody civil wars which
        raged in Italy confounded all things Divine and human. Bernardine went through
        the cities and towns, and, in the Name of Jesus, that Name which he ever bore
        upon his lips and in his heart, he prevailed in great measure by his word and
        example, in setting up falling godliness and morality. Illustrious cities
        demanded him from the Pope as their Bishop, but this was an honour which his
        unconquerable humility caused him always steadily to refuse. At last the man of
        God, after untold labours, the working of many and great miracles, and the
        writing of godly and learned books, in the 67th year of his age, at Aquila in
        the Abruzzi, rested in a blessed death. As the fame of new signs and wonders
        increased day by day, Pope Nicholas V., in the sixth year after his death, added
        his name to the roll of the Saints.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
