# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds
# live query, St. Margaret of Antioch's own day (2026-07-20). The
# Benedictus antiphon.
id: st-margaret-of-antioch-antiphon
text:
  la: "Símile est regnum cælórum * hómini negotiatóri quærénti bonas margarítas: invénta una pretiósa, dedit ómnia sua, et comparávit eam."
  en: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman * seeking goodly pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
