Add February Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints

Sts. Blaise, Apollonia, and Faustinus and Jovita.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Faustinus and Jovita, Martyrs (Feb 15)
# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/02-15*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-15.txt, English/Sancti/02-15.txt. Single
# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory
# given in the source.
id: ss-faustinus-and-jovita
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Faustinus et Jovita fratres, nobiles Brixiani, in multis Italiæ urbibus, quo vincti sæviente
Trajani persecutione ducebantur, acerbissima supplicia perpessi, fortes in christianæ fidei
confessione perstiterunt. Nam Brixiæ diu vinculis constricti, feris étiam objecti in
ignemque conjecti, et a bestiis et a flamma íntegri et incolumes servati sunt. Inde vero
eisdem catenis colligati Mediolanum venerunt; ubi eorum fides tentata exquisitissimis
tormentis, tamquam igne aurum, in cruciatibus magis enituit. Postea Romam missi, ab Evaristo
Pontifice confirmati, ibi quoque crudelissime torquentur. Denique perducti Neápolim, in ea
étiam urbe varie cruciati, vinctis manibus pedibusque in mare demerguntur; unde per Angelos
mirabiliter erepti sunt. Quare multos et constantia in tormentis et miraculorum virtute ad
Christi fidem converterunt. Postrémo reducti Brixiam initio suscepti ab Hadriano imperii,
securi percussi, illustrem martyrii coronam acceperunt.
en: >-
Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, born of a noble family at Brescia. While Trajan's
persecution was raging, they were taken about in chains from one city of Italy to another,
and exhibited in torture in each. This cruelty utterly failed to silence their confession
of Christ, Whom they preached by their sufferings in every place where they were shown.
They were afterwards kept for a long time at Brescia, where they were exhibited with wild
beasts, and tormented with fire. Being both still alive, they were brought to Milan, without
their chains having ever been taken off. At Milan they were tortured again with every
invention of cruelty that could be devised. Nevertheless the great power of their faith made
them more than conquerors, shining even as gold tried in the furnace. From Milan they were
brought to Rome, where they were confirmed by Pope Evaristus, and where they were put to the
torture again with extreme barbarity. They were afterwards shown in public at Naples, where
the tormentors displayed their skill in diverse ways upon them. Here they were thrown
chained into the sea, but the angels delivered them. Their stations of suffering, by their
God-like patience, and the wonderful power displayed in them, had now turned many souls to
Jesus. In the end they were carried back to Brescia, and, when Hadrian took the empire, they
were put to death by the axe at that place. The crown of martyrdom which they won is
glorious.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Apollonia, Virgin and Martyr (Feb 9) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/02-09.txt is a different, later
# saint (St. Cyril of Alexandria, added as a Doctor in 1882) who
# displaced Apollonia on the general calendar's own Feb 9 slot; her
# content survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-09o.txt, English/Sancti/02-09o.txt.
# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
# responsory given in the source.
id: st-apollonia
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Apollónia virgo Alexandrína, sub Décio imperatóre, cum ingravescénte jam ætáte ad idóla
sisterétur, ut eis veneratiónem adhibéret; illis contémptis, Jesum Christum verum Deum
coléndum esse prædicábat. Quam ob rem omnes ei contúsi sunt et evúlsi dentes; ac, nisi
Christum detestáta deos cóleret, accénso rogo combustúros vivam mináti sunt ímpii carnífices.
Quibus illa, se quamvis mortem pro Jesu Christi fide subitúram, respóndit. Itaque
comprehénsa ut comburerétur, cum paulísper, quasi delíberans quid agéndum esset, stetísset,
ex illórum mánibus elápsa, álacris in ignem sibi parátum, majóri Spíritus Sancti flamma
intus accénsa, se injécit. Unde brevi, consúmpto córpore, puríssimus spíritus in cælum ad
sempitérnam martyrii corónam evolávit.
en: >-
Apollonia was an aged virgin of Alexandria, who, in the reign of the Emperor Decius, was
brought before the idols to worship them, but refused, declaring that Christ Jesus is True
God, and that to Him worship is due. The cruel executioners beat and pulled out all her
teeth, and threatened to burn her alive if she would not deny Christ. To whom she answered,
that for Christ Jesus' sake she was ready to die. Being taken to the place of execution she
stood for a few moments as if in doubt, and then, the fire of the Holy Ghost burning up in
her heart, she broke from those that held her, and leapt of her own accord into the flames.
Her body was quickly consumed, and her soul departed pure to obtain the eternal crown of
martyrdom.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr (Feb 3) —
# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/02-03*.txt at all).
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/02-03.txt, English/Sancti/02-03.txt. Single
# lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no responsory
# given in the source.
id: st-blaise
readings:
- nocturn: 2
isGospel: false
text:
la: >-
Blásius, Sebáste in Arménia cum virtútum laude floréret, ejúsdem civitátis epíscopus
elígitur. Qui, quo témpore Diocletiánus insatiábilem crudelitátem in Christiános exercébat,
se in spelúncam ábdidit montis Argǽi; ubi támdiu látuit, dum ab Agricolái prǽsidis milítibus
venántibus deprehénsus et ad prǽsidem ductus, ejus jussu conjéctus est in víncula. Quo in
loco multos ægrótos sanávit, qui ad Blásium, ejus fama sanctitátis addúcti, deferebántur. In
illis puer fuit, qui, desperáta a médicis salúte, transvérsa spina fáucibus inhærénte,
ánimam agébat. Prodúctus autem ad prǽsidem Blásius semel et íterum, cum nec blandítiis nec
minis addúci posset, ut diis sacrificáret, primum virgis cæsus, deínde in equúleo férreis
pectínibus dilaniátus est; postrémo, dempto cápite, illústre fídei testimónium Christo
Dómino dedit, tértio Nonas Februárii.
en: >-
This Blaise was chosen Bishop of the city of Sebaste in Armenia, in which place he enjoyed
a great reputation for virtue. When Diocletian began to make the Christians the objects of
his insatiable cruelty, the Saint hid himself in a cave on Mount Argaeus, where he lay till
he was found by some of the soldiers of Agricolaus the governor, who were out hunting. He
was brought before the governor, who commanded him to be thrown into irons. While he was in
prison, Blaise healed many of the sick, who were brought to him on account of his
reputation of saintliness, and among others a boy who had been despaired of by the
physicians, and who was at the point of death, from a fish bone which had become fixed in
his throat. Blaise appeared twice before the governor, but neither cajolements nor threats
could induce him to sacrifice to the gods. He was first beaten with rods, and afterwards put
on the rack, where his flesh was mangled with iron combs. At last his head was cut off,
whereby he finished a noble testimony to the faith which is in Christ our Lord. He bore
witness on the 3rd day of February.
status: { la: verified, en: verified }