# Matins Nocturn reading for St. Maurus, Abbot (Jan 15) — a genuine
# Monastic-only saint: no Sancti/01-15*.txt names him at all (that slot
# belongs to Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum and, off-date, St. Paul
# the Hermit — see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints); his own proper
# vita exists only at web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/01-15t.txt. Lectio1-4
# of that file fall back to Common of a Confessor (`CommuneM/C5`), not
# proper text; Lectio5-8 are St. Maurus's own vita, one continuous
# account (a disciple-of-Benedict biography), combined into a single
# reading, no genuine source break.
# No English/SanctiM/01-15t.txt exists in the reference engine at all
# (the English SanctiM tree only covers a subset of dates) — English
# text below is this project's own translation of the Latin, not a
# reference-engine translation, so marked draft rather than verified
# per vu-prefer-text-over-missing. No responsory given in the source.
id: st-maurus-abbot
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Maurus nobilis Romanus, puer a patre Eutychio Deo sub sancti Benedicti disciplína oblatus,
        brevi tantum divina grátia profecit, ut ipsi magistro admiratióni esset; qui illum sæpe,
        véluti regularis observantiæ et virtútum ómnium specimen, ceteris discípulis ad imitándum
        proponebat.


        Cujus adhuc adolescentis illud admirábilis obediéntiæ exemplum a sancto Gregório Papa
        commemorátur. Nam, cum Placidus mónachus in lacum prolapsus, aquárum ímpetu raperétur,
        sancti Patris jussu accurrens Maurus, et super aquas incédens, socium capíllis apprehénsum,
        ad terram attraxit.


        Continentiæ tantá fuit, ut per Quadragesimam bis tantum in hebdomada, et quidem
        parcissime cibum sumeret. Somnum stando, vel cum nimia eum lassitudo compulísset, sedendo,
        super aggéstum calcis et fabuli strato cilício capiébat.


        Missus in Gálliam ab eodem sancto Benedicto, célebri monasterio exstructo, cui annos
        quadragínta præfuit, monasticam disciplínam mirifice propagávit. Denique sanctitáte et
        miraculis clarus, septuagenario major migrávit in cælum, anno salútis quingentésimo
        sexagésimo quinto.
      en: >-
        Maurus, a Roman of noble birth, was offered to God as a boy by his father Eutychius, to be
        formed under the discipline of St. Benedict. So swiftly did he advance by divine grace that
        he became a wonder to his own master, who often held him up to the other disciples as a
        model of regular observance and of every virtue, for them to imitate.


        While Maurus was yet a youth, Pope St. Gregory records this instance of his admirable
        obedience: when the monk Placid fell into a lake and was being swept away by the force of
        the waters, Maurus, running at the command of the holy Father and walking upon the water,
        caught his companion by the hair and drew him safe to land.


        So great was his self-restraint that during Lent he took food only twice in the week, and
        that most sparingly. For sleep, he either stood, or, when overcome by excessive weariness,
        sat upon a heap of lime and rubble spread with a hair shirt.


        Sent into Gaul by the same St. Benedict, he built a renowned monastery, over which he
        presided for forty years, wonderfully spreading monastic discipline. At length, renowned
        for holiness and miracles, he passed to heaven past the age of seventy, in the five hundred
        and sixty-fifth year of salvation.
    status: { la: verified, en: draft }
