# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Gervase and Protase, Martyrs (June 19)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/06-19.txt is a different, later
# saint (St. Juliana Falconieri, canonized 1737) who displaced Gervase
# and Protase on the general calendar's own June 19 slot; their content
# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-19o.txt, English/Sancti/06-19o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), no responsory in the source.
id: ss-gervase-and-protase
readings:
  - nocturn: 2
    isGospel: false
    text:
      la: >-
        Gervasius et Protasius, Vitalis et Valériæ fílii, quorum pater Ravennæ, mater Mediolani pro
        Christi Dómini fide martyrium subiérunt, distributo paupéribus patrimonio, domesticos servos
        libertáte donarunt. Quo facto Gentílium sacerdótes immane in illos conceptum ódium habebant.
        Quare, cum Astasius comes in bellum proficisci vellet, hanc occasiónem perdéndi pios fratres
        se nactos esse putavérunt. Itaque Astasio persuadent se a diis admonitos esse, nullo modo eum
        in bello victórem futurum, nisi Gervasio et Protasio coactis Christum negare, eosdem ad
        sacra diis facienda compélleret. Quod cum illi detestaréntur, Astasius imperávit Gervasium
        tamdiu cædi, dum inter verbera exspiraret; Protasium fustibus contusum secúri pércuti jubet.
        Quorum córpora Philippus Christi servus clam sústulit et in suis ædibus sepelívit: quæ
        póstea sanctus Ambrosius, Dei mónitu invénta, in loco sacro et insígni collocanda curávit.
        Passi sunt Mediolani décimo tertio Kalendas Julii.
      en: >-
        Gervase and Protase were the sons of Vitalis and Valeria, both of whom testified even unto
        death for the Lord Christ's sake, the father at Ravenna, and the mother at Milan. After the
        victory of their parents, Gervase and Protase gave all the inheritance to the poor, and set
        free their slaves. This act of theirs stirred up against them a savage hatred on the part of
        the heathen priests, and when the Count Astasius was about setting forth to war, they
        believed they had got a good occasion for the destruction of the two godly brethren. They
        persuaded Astasius that their gods had revealed to them that he had no chance of conquering
        in the war, unless he had first made Gervase and Protase to deny Christ and to offer
        sacrifice to the gods. Being commanded so to do, they flatly refused, and Astasius then
        ordered Gervase to be lashed until he died between the stripes, and Protase to be cudgelled
        and beheaded. A servant of Christ named Philip took away their dead bodies by stealth, and
        buried them in his own house, and, in after times, St. Ambrose, being warned of God, found
        them, and bestowed them in an hallowed and honourable place. They suffered at Milan upon the
        19th day of June.
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
