# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum,
# Martyrs (Jan 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (source confirmed Tridentine,
# not Monastic 1617: no 01-19*.txt under SanctiM at all; see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-19.txt, English/Sancti/01-19.txt. Source
# gives one single lesson (Lectio93, the reduced/simplex-feast form —
# this saint's rank is Simplex, no separate 9-lesson set), a single
# continuous account with no internal source break, transcribed whole.
# No responsory given in the source file.
id: ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Marius Persa, nobili loco natus, cum Martha cónjuge pari nobilitate, et duobus fíliis
        Audíface et Abachum, Romam venit Cláudio imperatóre, ut Mártyrum sepúlcra venerarétur. Ibi
        Christiános in víncula conjectos fovébant, et ópera ac facultátibus suis sustentábant, et
        Sanctórum córpora sepeliebant. Quam ob rem comprehénsi omnes, cum nec impiórum minis nec
        terróre commoveréntur, ut diis sacrificarent; primum fustibus debilitati, deínde funibus
        attracti, tum admótis candéntibus, láminis combusti, et úngulis férreis excarnificáti sunt.
        Postremo præcisis mánibus, et ad collum alligatis, ducti per mediam urbem, via Cornelia ad
        tertium décimum ab Urbe milliárium, in eum locum, qui Nymphe dicebátur, necántur: ac primum
        Martha, quæ virum ac fílios ad supplícia pro Jesu Christi fide constanter perferenda,
        veheménter fuerat cohortáta; mox ceteris in eádem arenaria cervices abscindúntur, eorúmque
        córpora conjiciúntur in ignem. Quæ semiusta, Felícitas matrona Romana nobilis, colligenda et
        in suo prædio sepelienda curávit.
      en: >-
        Marius was a Persian of high rank, who came to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Claudius,
        with his wife Martha, who was equally noble, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum, to
        pray at the graves of the Martyrs. Here they comforted the Christians who were in prison,
        and whom they relieved by their ministrations and alms, and buried the bodies of the
        Saints. For these acts they were all arrested, but no threats or terrors could move them to
        sacrifice to idols. They were accordingly mangled with clubs, and drawn with ropes, after
        which they were burnt by applying plates of red-hot metal to their bodies, and their flesh
        partly torn off with metal hooks. Lastly their hands were all cut off, and they were
        fastened together by the neck, in which state they were driven through the city to the
        thirteenth mile-stone on the Cornelian Way, a place now called Santa Ninfa, where they were
        to die. Martha addressed a moving exhortation to her husband and sons to hold out bravely
        to the last, for the love of Jesus Christ; and was then herself drowned. The other three
        martyrs were next beheaded in the same sand-pit. Their bodies were thrown into a fire. The
        lady Felicity of Rome collected the half-burnt remains, and caused them to be buried at her
        own farm.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
