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