# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor (May 17).
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/05-17.txt,
# English/Sancti/05-17.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-paschal-baylon
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Paschalis Baylon, paupéribus piisque paréntibus in oppido Turris Formosæ,
        Seguntinæ diœcesis, in Aragónia natus, a téneris annis plura dedit futuræ
        sanctitátis indicia. Sortítus ánimam bonam ac rerum cæléstium appríme studiosam,
        puerítiam atque adolescéntiam in gregis custódia transegit; quam ille vivéndi
        ratiónem ideo præcipue diligebat, quod humilitáti fovendæ ac innocéntiæ
        conservandæ in primis utilem atque opportunam judicáret. Erat in victu modicus,
        in oratióne assiduus, tantáque apud coævos et socios florebat auctoritate et
        grátia, ut eórum lites compónens, erróres corrigens, ignorantiam erudiens ac
        desidiam éxcitans, velut ómnium parens et magister máximo studio colerétur ac
        amarétur: beátus étiam tum a plerisque appellatus.


        Qui vero in sæculo, terra nempe desérta et inaquósa, adeo feliciter adoléverat,
        flos convallium, plantátus in domo Dómini, mirum ubíque sparsit sanctitátis
        odórem. Igitur Paschalis arrepto vitæ severioris instituto, atque in ordine
        Minórum strictioris observantiæ Discalceatórum cooptatus, exsultávit ut gigas ad
        curréndam viam suam; totumque se Dómino excoléndum tradens, dies noctesque
        cogitabat, qua se ratióne magis ei magisque conformaret. Ita factum est brevi, ut
        eum, tamquam seraphicæ perfectiónis exemplar, ipsi quoque provectiores imitándum
        sibi propónerent. Ipse autem in humili serviéntium gradu constitútus, se velut
        ómnium peripséma réputans, ardua quæque et abjecta domus ministeria, véluti jure
        quodam peculiari sibi débita, summa cum hilaritate suscipiebat, et exercebat
        humilitate ac patiéntia pari. Carnem spiritui quandoque reluctari nitentem jugi
        maceratióne afflictávit, atque in servitútem redégit; spíritum vero assidua sui
        abnegatióne ferventiórem in dies ad anterióra extendebat.


        Deíparam Vírginem, cujus clientelæ se ab ineunte ætate dicáverat, tamquam matrem
        quotidiánis colebat obsequiis atque filiali exorábat fiducia. Porro erga
        sanctíssimum Eucharistiæ sacraméntum difficile dictu est quam ardénti tenerétur
        devotiónis afféctu; quem defunctus étiam in cadávere retinére visus est, dum,
        jacens in féretro, ad sacræ Hostiæ elevatiónem bis óculos reserávit et clausit,
        magna ómnium, qui áderant, admiratióne. Ejusdem veritátem inter hæreticos publice
        palamque proféssus, multa et gravia ob eam causam perpéssus est; crebro étiam ad
        necem petítus, sed singulari Dei providéntia ab impiórum mánibus ereptus. Sæpe
        inter orándum ómnibus destituebátur sensibus, dulcique languebat amoris
        deliquio: quo témpore cælestem illam sciéntiam hausisse créditus est, qua, homo
        rudis et illiteratus, de mystériis fidei difficillimis respondére, atque áliquot
        étiam libros conscríbere pótuit. Denique meritis plenus, eádem qua prædixerat
        hora, feliciter migrávit ad Dóminum, anno salútis millesimo quingentésimo
        nonagesimo secundo, sexto décimo Kalendas Junii, eodem, quo natus fuerat, festo
        Pentecostes recurrente, annum agens secúndum supra quinquagesimum.
      en: >-
        Paschal Baylon was the son of poor and godly parents, in the town of Torre
        Hermosa, and Diocese of Sagunta in Aragon. From his childhood he gave
        indications of a holy life. He was naturally of a good disposition, and very
        wishful to learn about heavenly things. His boyhood and youth he passed in the
        occupation of a shepherd. This way of life pleased him well, because he thought
        it one useful and fitted to nourish lowliness and keep innocency. He ate little,
        and was instant in prayer. He had great weight and favour with his fellows and
        neighbours, whose quarrels he healed, corrected their mistakes, enlightened
        their ignorance, and roused them from idleness. They all greatly honoured and
        loved him, as though he were their father and teacher, and even then many called
        him "Beato," that is "the Blessed."


        In a world which was to him "a dry land, where no water is" the vallies,
        "planted in the House of the Lord," whose strange sweetness spread all around.
        When he took upon him an harder life, by entering the Institute of barefooted
        Grey Friars, of the strict Observance, "he rejoiced as a strong man to run a
        race," and gave himself up altogether to serve the Lord, thinking by day and by
        night only how he might attain more and more to have that mind in him which was
        also in Christ Jesus. And so it came to pass in a little while, that his very
        elders set him before them for their model, as a pattern of a man seeking to be
        perfect in the path of the Seraphic Order. Paschal himself held the lowly place
        of a lay brother, and deemed himself "the off-scouring of all things." He took
        most cheerfully, and discharged with the greatest humility and patience, the
        hardest and meanest work of the house, as though such were his peculiar right.
        His flesh would sometimes rebel against his spirit, but he broke it under the
        yoke of mortification, and brought it into subjection. Day by day the spirit of
        self-denial waxed stronger in him, and "forgetting those things which were
        behind, he reached forth unto those things which were before."


        The Virgin Mother of God he had vowed himself when he was but a little lad, and
        he paid her every day the services of a son, and trusted her as a mother. It is
        hard to tell how intense was the love which bound him to the Most Holy Sacrament
        of the Eucharist, a love which seemed literally stronger than death, for when
        his dead body was found lying on the bier, its eyes opened and shut twice when
        the Sacred Host was lifted up, to the amazement of all that were there. When he
        was among heretics, he suffered much and grievously at their hands for plainly
        and openly telling the truth touching this Sacrament; they often sought after
        him to murder him, but by the singular Providence of God he was delivered from
        those wicked men. When he was at prayer he often became utterly insensible, and
        his soul fainted away with the love of God. During these trances it was believed
        that he received directly from heaven that knowledge which he had, and which
        enabled him, although a man altogether rough and unlettered, to answer the
        hardest questions upon the mysteries of the faith, and even to write some books.
        At last, full of good works, he joyfully passed away to be ever with the Lord,
        at the hour foretold by himself, on the Feast of Pentecost, the 17th day of May,
        in the year of salvation 1592, on which day also he had been born fifty-two
        years before.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
