Add January Matins readings for pre-1955 sanctoral saints
Sts. Marcellus I, Paul the Hermit, Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum, Emerentiana, Timothy, Polycarp, and Agnes (second feast) — sourced from the reference engine's Tridentine/Divino Afflatu track since none of these saints existed in the Monastic 1617 calendar this app otherwise follows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for Ss. Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum,
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# Martyrs (Jan 19) — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (source confirmed Tridentine,
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# not Monastic 1617: no 01-19*.txt under SanctiM at all; see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-19.txt, English/Sancti/01-19.txt. Source
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# gives one single lesson (Lectio93, the reduced/simplex-feast form —
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# this saint's rank is Simplex, no separate 9-lesson set), a single
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# continuous account with no internal source break, transcribed whole.
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# No responsory given in the source file.
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id: ss-marius-martha-audifax-and-abachum
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Marius Persa, nobili loco natus, cum Martha cónjuge pari nobilitate, et duobus fíliis
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Audíface et Abachum, Romam venit Cláudio imperatóre, ut Mártyrum sepúlcra venerarétur. Ibi
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Christiános in víncula conjectos fovébant, et ópera ac facultátibus suis sustentábant, et
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Sanctórum córpora sepeliebant. Quam ob rem comprehénsi omnes, cum nec impiórum minis nec
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terróre commoveréntur, ut diis sacrificarent; primum fustibus debilitati, deínde funibus
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attracti, tum admótis candéntibus, láminis combusti, et úngulis férreis excarnificáti sunt.
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Postremo præcisis mánibus, et ad collum alligatis, ducti per mediam urbem, via Cornelia ad
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tertium décimum ab Urbe milliárium, in eum locum, qui Nymphe dicebátur, necántur: ac primum
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Martha, quæ virum ac fílios ad supplícia pro Jesu Christi fide constanter perferenda,
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veheménter fuerat cohortáta; mox ceteris in eádem arenaria cervices abscindúntur, eorúmque
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córpora conjiciúntur in ignem. Quæ semiusta, Felícitas matrona Romana nobilis, colligenda et
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in suo prædio sepelienda curávit.
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en: >-
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Marius was a Persian of high rank, who came to Rome in the reign of the Emperor Claudius,
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with his wife Martha, who was equally noble, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum, to
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pray at the graves of the Martyrs. Here they comforted the Christians who were in prison,
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and whom they relieved by their ministrations and alms, and buried the bodies of the
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Saints. For these acts they were all arrested, but no threats or terrors could move them to
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sacrifice to idols. They were accordingly mangled with clubs, and drawn with ropes, after
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which they were burnt by applying plates of red-hot metal to their bodies, and their flesh
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partly torn off with metal hooks. Lastly their hands were all cut off, and they were
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fastened together by the neck, in which state they were driven through the city to the
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thirteenth mile-stone on the Cornelian Way, a place now called Santa Ninfa, where they were
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to die. Martha addressed a moving exhortation to her husband and sons to hold out bravely
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to the last, for the love of Jesus Christ; and was then herself drowned. The other three
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martyrs were next beheaded in the same sand-pit. Their bodies were thrown into a fire. The
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lady Felicity of Rome collected the half-burnt remains, and caused them to be buried at her
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own farm.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr, Second Feast
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# (Jan 28) — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-28.txt is a
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# different, later saint (St. Peter Nolasco) who displaced this second
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# Agnes feast on the general calendar's own Jan 28 slot; her content
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# survives at the suffixed sibling file (see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle").
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-28t.txt, English/Sancti/01-28t.txt.
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# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
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# responsory given in the source.
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id: st-agnes-secunda
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Beáta Agnes, paréntibus ad ejus sepúlcrum assidue vigilántibus, quadam nocte choro
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vírginum comitáta cum apparuísset, sic ad eos locuta dícitur: Ne me, paréntes, mortuam
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lugeátis; nam una cum his virgínibus vivo apud illum in cælis, quem in terris tota mente
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diléxi. Cum aliquot post annos Constantia, Constantini imperatóris fília, insanábili
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úlceri medicinam quærens, nondum christiana ad idem sepúlcrum accessísset; obdórmiscens
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sibi audíre visa est vocem hanc Agnetis: Constanter age, Constántia: crede in Jesum
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Christum Fílium Dei, qui te sanam fáciet. Quæ sanata, paulo post una cum multis ex família
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imperatóris baptismum suscípiens, ibi ecclésiam nómine beátæ Agnétis ædificávit.
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en: >-
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The night when the parents of the blessed Agnes were watching at her grave, she appeared
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to them in company with a band of virgins, and said to them: Father and Mother, weep not
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for me as though I were dead; for now these virgins and I live together in Him Whose love
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was my whole life upon earth. Some years afterwards, Constance, the daughter of the Emperor
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Constantine, being sick of an incurable ulcer, betook herself to the said grave, although
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she was not yet a Christian, and as she lay by it and slept, she seemed to hear the voice
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of Agnes, saying to her: Constance, be of good courage, believe in Jesus Christ the Son of
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God, and He will make thee whole. The Princess, being healed, was baptized, along with many
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others of the Emperor's family and household, and afterwards built over the grave of the
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blessed Agnes a Church named in her honour.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Emerentiana, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 23)
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# — pre-1955-but-post-1617. Plain Sancti/01-23.txt is a different, later
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# saint (St. Raymond of Peñafort) who displaced Emerentiana on the
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# general calendar's own Jan 23 slot; her own content survives at the
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# suffixed sibling file instead (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints's
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# "critical wrinkle").
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-23o.txt, English/Sancti/01-23o.txt.
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# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no
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# responsory given in the source.
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id: st-emerentiana
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Emerentiána virgo Romana, collactanea beátæ Agnetis, adhuc catechumena, fide et caritate
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flagrans, furéntes in Christiános idolórum cultores cum vehementius accusaret, a concitáta
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multitúdine lapidibus óbruta est. Quæ in cruciátibus orans ad sepúlcrum sanctæ Agnetis,
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proprio sánguine, quem pro Christo constanter effudit, baptizata, ánimam Deo réddidit.
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en: >-
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Emerentiana was a Roman maiden, and the foster-sister of the blessed Agnes. While she was
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still a Catechumen she was inspired by her faith and love to rebuke the fury of the
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idol-worshippers against the Christians, whereupon a mob assembled, and stoned her so
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severely that she was only able to drag herself to the grave of holy Agnes, where, while
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she prayed, she gave up her soul to God, being baptized, not in water, but in her own
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blood, so freely shed for Christ.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Marcellus I, Pope and Martyr (Jan 16) —
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# the first of the "pre-1955-but-post-1617" saints (source confirmed
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# Tridentine, not Monastic 1617: web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM has no
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# 01-16*.txt at all; see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-16.txt, English/Sancti/01-16.txt.
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# Lectio1-3 and 7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr-Pope ("vide C2b" in [Rule]),
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# not proper to this saint, so not authored here per this project's
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# existing "no Common fallback authored into this store" pattern. Only
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# Lectio4-6 are this saint's own proper text — one continuous vita
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# account, no internal source break, so combined into a single reading
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# per the project's recombine-don't-reproduce-the-lesson-split rule.
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# Responsory: the plain (non-"rubrica tridentina", which is just an alias
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# to Commune/C2a) Responsory8 text.
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id: st-marcellus-i
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Marcellus Romanus, a Constantio et Galerio usque ad Maxéntium pontificátum gessit. Cujus
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hortatu Lucina matrona Romana, bonórum suórum Dei Ecclésiam fecit heredem. Aucto in Urbe
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fidelium numero, ad eórum utilitátem, ad baptismum pœnitentiámque dandam eis, qui christianam
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religiónem suscíperent, et ad Mártyrum sepultúram, novos Titulos instituit, et quasi álteras
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diœcéses distríbuit. Quibus rebus ira incénsus Maxentius, Marcello gravia supplícia minátur,
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nisi, depósito pontificatu, idolis immoláret.
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Qui cum insanas hóminis voces neglígeret, misit eum in catábulum, ut bestiárum, quæ publice
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alebántur, curam sustinéret: ubi Marcéllus assiduis jejuniis et precibus novem menses vitam
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duxit, parochias, quas præsens non póterat, visitans per epistolas. Inde ereptus a clericis,
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hospítio recípitur a beáta Lucina, in cujus ædibus ecclésiam dedicávit, quæ hódie titulo
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sancti Marcelli nominátur: in qua et Christiáni orábant, et ipse beátus Marcellus
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prædicabat.
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Quibus cógnitis, Maxéntius in eam ecclésiam catábuli bestias transférri, et a Marcello
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custodiri jubet: ubi loci fœditate, multisque ærumnis afflíctus obdormívit in Dómino. Cujus
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corpus in cœmeterio Priscillæ via Salaria a beáta Lucina sepúltum est décimo septimo Kalendas
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Februarii. Sedit annos quinque, mensem unum, dies viginti quinque. Scripsit epistolam ad
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episcopos Antiochenæ provinciæ de primatu Romanæ Ecclésiæ, quam caput ecclesiárum
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appellandam demonstrat; ubi étiam illud scriptum est, nullum concílium jure celebrari, nisi
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ex auctoritáte Romani Pontificis. Ordinávit mense Decembri Romæ presbyteros viginti quinque,
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diaconos duos, episcopos per diversa loca viginti unum.
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en: >-
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This Marcellus was a Roman, and held the supreme Pontificate from (the year of our Lord 304,
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in) the reign of Constantius and Galerius, till (310, in) that of Maxentius. It was through
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his persuasion that the Roman lady Lucina left the whole of her property to the Church of
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God. As the believers increased, he instituted new titles in the City, which he divided
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after the manner of dioceses for their convenience, and for the baptism and penance of
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heathens converted to Christianity, and for the burial of the martyrs. These proceedings
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excited the wrath of Maxentius, who threatened Marcellus with the heaviest punishment,
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unless he would lay down the Popedom and sacrifice to idols.
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The servant of God treated with contempt the mad cries of this man, who accordingly took him
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and sent him to a menagerie, to take care of the beasts which were fed at the public cost.
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Marcellus remained at this place for nine months, which he spent in continual fasting and
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prayer, and, as he could not visit the parishes in person, he wrote letters to them. Some
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clerks rescued him, and the blessed Lucina hospitably received him into her house, in which
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he dedicated a Church, which is now called St. Marcellus'. Here the Christians met to pray,
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and the blessed Marcellus himself preached.
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These proceedings came to the knowledge of Maxentius, who thereupon had the wild beasts
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brought from the menagerie and located in the church, where Marcellus was made to feed them.
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The noisomeness of the place and the filthiness of his occupation broke down a constitution
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already enfeebled by many ailments, and he fell asleep in the Lord. The blessed Lucina
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buried his body in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Salarian Way, on the 16th of January.
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He sat on the throne of Peter for five years, one month, and twenty-five days. He wrote an
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epistle to the Bishops of the Patriarchate of Antioch on the primacy of the Roman Church,
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wherein he proveth the right of the same Church to be called the head of all the Churches.
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In this letter he likewise saith that no Council can be lawfully gathered together except by
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the authority of the Roman Pontiff. He ordained at Rome in the month of December
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twenty-five Priests, two Deacons, and twenty-one Bishops for diverse Sees.
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responsory:
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la: "Dómine, prævenísti eum in benedictiónibus dulcédinis: * Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso.\nV. Vitam pétiit a te, et tribuísti ei longitúdinem diérum in sæculum sæculi.\nR. Posuísti in cápite ejus corónam de lápide pretióso."
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en: "O Lord, thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: * Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.\nV. He asked life of thee, and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.\nR. Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones."
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Paul the First Hermit (vu's calendar:
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# Jan 19, displaced from the general calendar's Jan 15 to make room for
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# St. Maurus there per Monastic practice — see memory
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# vu-matins-pre1955-saints's "critical wrinkle"). Source is therefore
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# off-date: web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-15.txt and
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# English/Sancti/01-15.txt (NOT 01-19.txt, which is a different saint in
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# the general calendar — Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum, sourced
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# separately).
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#
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# Lectio4-6 is one continuous narrative (the encounter with St. Anthony),
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# no internal source break, so combined into a single reading per the
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# project's recombine rule. Lectio94 (the reduced-office alternate
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# summary) is skipped, same as Marcellus.
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#
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# Not authored here: Nocturn 3. The source file's own Lectio7-9 are
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# themselves a cross-reference (`@Sancti/02-24:Lectio7` etc.) to St.
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# Matthias's Gospel+homily (Matt 11:25-30 + St. Augustine, Sermon 10 on
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# the Words of the Lord) — genuinely part of Paul's day, but that source
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# file gives only the Gospel incipit ("Et réliqua"), no full pericope
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# text and no responsory of its own to transcribe from. Deferred rather
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# than fabricated; the bulk Vulgate/Douay-Rheims import (see TODO.md)
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# would resolve the Gospel side of this gap directly.
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id: st-paul-the-hermit
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readings:
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isGospel: false
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text:
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Paulus, eremitárum auctor et magister, apud inferiórem Thebáidem natus, cum quindecim esset
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annórum, orbátus paréntibus est. Qui postea declinandæ causa persecutiónis Decii et
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Valeriáni, et Deo liberius inserviéndi, in eremi spelúncam se cóntulit: ubi, palma ei
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victum et vestítum præbente, vixit ad centésimum et décimum tertium annum, quo témpore ab
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Antonio nonagenario Dei admónitu invísitur. Quibus inter se, cum ántea non nossent, proprio
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nómine consalutántibus, et multa de regno Dei colloquéntibus, corvus, qui ántea semper
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Paulo dimidiátum panem attulerat, integrum détulit.
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Post corvi discessum, Eja, inquit Paulus, Dóminus nobis prandium misit, vere pius, vere
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miséricors. Sexagínta jam anni sunt, cum accipio quotídie dimidii panis fragméntum, nunc ad
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advéntum tuum milítibus suis Christus duplicávit annonam. Quare cum gratiárum actióne ad
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fontem capiéntes cibum, ubi tantisper recreáti sunt, íterum gratiis de more Deo actis,
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noctem in divinis laudibus consumpsérunt. Dilúculo Paulus de morte, quæ sibi instaret,
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ádmonens Antónium, hortátur, ut pallium, quod ab Athanasio acceperat, ad involvéndum suum
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corpus afferret. Quo ex itinere rédiens ille, vidit inter Angelórum choros, inter
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Prophetárum et Apostolórum cœtus Pauli ánimam in cælum ascendere.
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Cumque ad ejus cellam pervenísset, invénit genibus complicatis, erecta cervice, exténsisque
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in altum mánibus corpus exanime: quod pallio obvolvens, hymnosque et psalmos ex christiana
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traditióne decantans, cum sárculum, quo terram fóderet, non haberet, duo leones ex
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interiore erémo rápido cursu ad beáti senis corpus ferúntur; ut facile intelligerétur, eos,
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quo modo póterant, plorátum édere: qui certatim terram pédibus effodiéntes, fóveam, quæ
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hóminem commode cáperet, effecérunt. Qui cum abiísent, Antonius sanctum corpus in eum locum
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íntulit; et injecta humo, tumulum ex christiáno more compósuit: túnicam vero Pauli, quam in
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sportæ modum ex palmæ foliis ille sibi contexúerat, secum áuferens, eo vestítu diébus
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solemnibus Paschæ et Pentecostes, quoad vixit, usus est.
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en: >-
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Paul the first hermit, and model of all others, was a native of the lower Thebaid in Egypt.
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At the age of fifteen years he lost both his parents. In order to escape from the
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persecution of Decius and Valerian, and to serve God in quietness, he betook himself to a
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cave in the desert. Here there was a palm-tree, on the fruit of which he lived, and of
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whose leaves he made his raiment until he attained the age of 113 years. At that time
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Anthony, being now himself aged 90 years, received a command from God to go and see him.
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They met without knowing one another's names, and saluted one another, after which they
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fell straightway into a long discourse concerning the kingdom of God. Now it so happened
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that a raven had of a long time brought Paul every day half a loaf, but on this day while
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they spake together he brought a whole one.
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When the raven had flown away, Well, quoth Paul, the Lord hath sent us our dinner. Truly He
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is gracious; truly He is merciful. It is now sixty years that I have had half a loaf of
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bread every day, but now that thou art come, Christ giveth His soldiers double rations.
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Then they asked a blessing, and ate together, sitting by a spring. When they were
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refreshed, they returned thanks, as is the custom, and afterwards spent the whole night
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praising God. At break of day Paul felt the approach of death, and desired Anthony to bring
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the cloak which Athanasius had given him, to use for his winding-sheet. While Anthony was
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on his way back from this journey, he saw in a vision the soul of Paul ascending to heaven,
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surrounded by choirs of angels, and accompanied by the Prophets and Apostles.
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When Anthony reached the cell of Paul, he found the dead body of the Saint in a kneeling
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posture, with the head thrown up and the hands stretched out towards heaven. He immediately
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began to chant the psalms and hymns ordained by Christian tradition, while he wrapped the
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body in the cloak of Athanasius. He had no spade to dig a grave, but two lions came roaring
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from the desert, as though to attend the burying, and scratched a hole big enough to hold a
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man's body, with their paws, showing meanwhile such signs of grief as their nature alloweth.
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When they were gone away, Anthony put the holy body in this hole, covered it with earth,
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and arranged it like a Christian's grave. He took away for himself Paul's tunic, which he
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had woven out of the palm-leaves somewhat after the manner of basket-work, and this tunic
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Anthony was in the habit of wearing on the great days of the Passover and Pentecost as long
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as he lived.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for St. Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 26)
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# — pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-26*.txt at all).
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-26.txt, English/Sancti/01-26.txt.
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# Lectio4 (St. Jerome's biographical note, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis
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# cap. 17) is a genuinely distinct source from Lectio5-6 (a cross-ref,
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# `@Sancti/07-13:Lectio5/6` — St. Ambrose's Exposition on Psalm 118,
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# borrowed from St. Anacletus's own file but proper to this day too) —
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# kept as two separate readings. Lectio5-6 combined into one (continuous,
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# no internal break). Lectio7-9 are Common-of-a-Martyr (skipped, not
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# proper). No responsory given in either source file.
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id: st-polycarp
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Jerome, Priest, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, ch. 17"
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text:
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la: >-
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Polycárpus, Joánnis Apóstoli discípulus et ab eo Smyrnæ epíscopus ordinátus, totíus Asiæ
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princeps fuit, quippe qui nonnúllos Apostolórum et eórum qui víderant Dóminum, magístros
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habúerit et víderit. Hic propter quasdam super die Paschæ quæstiónes, sub imperatóre
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Antoníno Pio, Ecclésiam in Urbe regénte Anicéto, Romam venit; ubi plúrimos credéntium,
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Marciónis et Valentíni persuasióne decéptos, redúxit ad fidem. Cumque ei fortúito óbviam
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fuísset Márcion et díceret: Cognóscis nos? respóndit: Cognósco primogénitum diáboli. Póstea
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vero, regnánte Marco Antoníno et Lúcio Aurélio Cómmodo, quarta post Nerónem persecutióne,
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Smyrnæ, sedénte procónsule et univérso pópulo in amphitheátro advérsus eum personánte, igni
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tráditus est. Scripsit ad Philippénses valde útilem epístolam, quæ usque hódie in Asiæ
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convéntu légitur.
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en: >-
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Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostle John, and was consecrated by him Bishop of Smyrna. He
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was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia, because he had been taught by several
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of the Apostles, and other persons who had seen the Lord. During the reign of the Emperor
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Antoninus Pius, and while Anicetus presided over the Church of Rome, Polycarp came thither
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to discuss some questions regarding the time for observing Easter. He found some heretics
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at Rome, who had been led astray by the doctrine of Marcion and Valentine, and brought back
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many of them to the faith. One day Marcion met him by accident, and said to him: Do you
|
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recognise me? whereto he replied: I recognise the devil's eldest son. Some time after, in
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the reign of Mark Antonine and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, during the fourth persecution
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since Nero, when the Pro-consul was ruling in Smyrna, the whole population being assembled
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in the theatre, clamoured against Polycarp, and to please them he was burnt. He wrote an
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extremely useful Epistle to the Philippians, which is publicly read in the Churches of Asia
|
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even to this day.
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status: { la: verified, en: verified }
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Exposition on Psalm 118, Sermon 21"
|
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text:
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la: >-
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Principes persecuti sunt me gratis: et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum. Bene hoc Martyr
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dicit, quod injuste persecutionum tormenta sustineat: qui nihil rapuerit, nullum violentus
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oppresserit, nullius sanguinem fuderit, nullius torum putaverit esse violandum: qui nihil
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legibus debeat, et graviora latronum sustinere cogatur supplicia: qui loquatur juste, et non
|
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audiatur: qui loquatur plena salutis, et impugnetur: ut possit dicere, Cum loquebar illis,
|
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impugnabant me gratis. Gratis igitur persecutionem patitur, qui impugnatur sine crimine
|
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impugnatur ut noxius, cum sit in tali confessione laudabilis: impugnatur quasi veneficus,
|
||||
qui in nomine Domini gloriatur, cum pietas virtutum omnium fundamentum sit.
|
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|
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|
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Vere frustra impugnatur, qui apud impios et infidos impietatis arcessitur, cum fidei sit
|
||||
magister. Verum qui gratis impugnatur, fortis debet esse et constans, quomodo ergo
|
||||
subtexuit: Et a verbis tuis trepidavit cor meum? Trepidare infirmitatis est, timoris atque
|
||||
formidinis. Sed est étiam infirmitas ad salutem, est étiam timor sanctorum. Timete Dominum
|
||||
omnes sancti ejus: et, Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum. Qua ratione beatus? Quia in mandatis
|
||||
ejus cupit nimis.
|
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en: >-
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Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. These
|
||||
are rightly the words of a martyr, who beareth unjustly the torments of the persecutors,
|
||||
who hath robbed no man, who hath violently oppressed no man, who hath shed the blood of no
|
||||
man, who hath imagined to defile the bed of no man, who is debtor to the laws in nothing,
|
||||
and who is punished more grievously than if he were a robber: who speaketh righteousness,
|
||||
and there is none that will hear: who speaketh salvation, and all men fight against him: who
|
||||
is able to say: "When I spoke unto them, they fought against me without a cause." (Ps.
|
||||
cxix. 7.) They fight against him without a cause, who can lay no sin to his charge; they
|
||||
fight against him as an evildoer, who is by their own acknowledgment righteous: they fight
|
||||
against him as a warlock, who glorieth in the name of the Lord, and who doeth all things
|
||||
well because he doeth all things for God's sake.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Verily, him that is fought against without a cause it behoveth to be strong and patient.
|
||||
Wherefore then saith he: My heart standeth in awe of thy word? Awe is the mark of the weak,
|
||||
the timid, and the fearful. But there is also a weakness unto salvation, there is a fear
|
||||
which is an holy fear. O fear the Lord, all ye His Saints. (Ps. xxxiii. 10.) And again:
|
||||
Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. (Ps. cxi. 1.) And wherefore is he blessed? because
|
||||
he delighteth greatly in His commandments.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Timothy, Bishop and Martyr (Jan 24) —
|
||||
# pre-1955-but-post-1617 (no SanctiM/01-24*.txt at all).
|
||||
# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-24.txt, English/Sancti/01-24.txt.
|
||||
# Lectio4-5 is this saint's own proper text, one continuous account, no
|
||||
# internal break, combined into a single reading; Lectio6 is a bare
|
||||
# `@Commune/C2:Lectio4` reference (not proper), skipped per this
|
||||
# project's existing "no Common fallback authored into this store"
|
||||
# pattern. No responsory given in the source.
|
||||
id: st-timothy
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Timótheus, Lystris in Lycaónia natus ex patre Gentíli et matre Judǽa, christiánam colébat
|
||||
religiónem, cum in ea loca venit Paulus Apóstolus. Qui fama commótus, quæ de Timóthei
|
||||
sanctitáte percrebúerat, ipsum adhíbuit sócium suæ peregrinatiónis: sed propter Judǽos qui
|
||||
se ad Christum convérterant, sciéntes Timóthei patrem esse Gentílem, eum circumcídit. Cum
|
||||
ígitur ambo Ephesum veníssent, ibi ordinátus est epíscopus ab Apóstolo, ut eam ecclésiam
|
||||
gubernáret.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ad quem Apóstolus duas epístolas scripsit, álteram Laodicéa, álteram Roma. Quibus in
|
||||
pastorális offícii cura confirmátus, cum sacrifícium, quod uni Deo debétur fíeri dǽmonum
|
||||
simulácris, ferre non posset; pópulum Ephesínum, Diánæ in ejus celebritáte immolántem, ab
|
||||
illa impietáte removére conátus, lapídibus óbrutus est; ac pene mórtuus, a Christiánis
|
||||
eréptus et in montem óppido vicínum delátus, nono Kaléndas Februárii obdormívit in Dómino.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Timothy was a native of Lystra in Lycaonia, born of a Gentile father and a Jewish mother.
|
||||
He embraced the Christian religion when the Apostle Paul came into those parts. The holy
|
||||
Apostle was so struck with the fame of Timothy's sanctity, that he chose him to be the
|
||||
companion of his journeys, and caused him to be circumcised, in order to remove a
|
||||
stumbling-block from the way of those Jews who felt drawn to Christianity. When they came
|
||||
together to Ephesus, the Apostle consecrated him Bishop of that Church.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Two of the Apostle Paul's Epistles are addressed to this Saint, of which one was written
|
||||
from Laodicea, and the other from Rome. These sacred writings so stirred him up to the
|
||||
zealous discharge of his duties as a spiritual shepherd, that he strove to prevent the
|
||||
people of Ephesus from sacrificing to Artemis on her feastday, knowing that sacrifice is
|
||||
due to God alone. The heathens thereupon stoned him till he was well-nigh dead, and
|
||||
although he was rescued by the Christians, and carried to a mountain near the city, he then
|
||||
fell asleep in the Lord, on the 24th day of January.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
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