diff --git a/src/calendar/commemorations.ts b/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
index af93cd2..5aa684d 100644
--- a/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
+++ b/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ export function decideOccurrence(
       // feast, however low-ranked, is kept in its place.
       return { winner: sanctoralWinner(sanctoral), commemorations: [] };
 
+    case 'privileged-feria-minor':
+      // Advent's own ordinary ferias (verified: St. Bibiana, Simplex,
+      // merely commemorated under an Advent feria; St. Nicholas,
+      // Semiduplex, wins outright with the feria commemorated in return).
+      // Weaker than `privileged-feria`'s Duplex+ threshold — Semiduplex is
+      // already enough here — and unlike every other feria tier, nothing
+      // ever transfers: whichever side loses still gets a commemoration.
+      if (isAtLeast(sanctoral.rank, 'semiduplex')) {
+        return { winner: sanctoralWinner(sanctoral), commemorations: [{ kind: 'temporal', id: temporalId }] };
+      }
+      return { winner: temporalWinner, commemorations: [sanctoralCommemoration(sanctoral)] };
+
     case 'privileged-feria':
       // The lesser of the two privileged-feria tiers (Ember days outside
       // Holy Week/the Easter Octave, etc.) — behaves exactly like an
diff --git a/src/calendar/types.ts b/src/calendar/types.ts
index 7a8523a..0da33dd 100644
--- a/src/calendar/types.ts
+++ b/src/calendar/types.ts
@@ -82,8 +82,19 @@ export type FeastClass =
 // categories.yml for exactly which days fall in which tier — some of that
 // split (e.g. whether Pentecost's own Ember days share Lent's lesser tier
 // or Easter's major one) is still a reconstructed guess, not verified.
+// `privileged-feria-minor` is a third, weaker tier, added during the
+// December sanctoral pull after finding Advent's own ordinary (non-Ember)
+// ferias have real standing of their own in the live engine — a Simplex
+// saint (e.g. St. Bibiana, Dec 2) is merely commemorated there, while a
+// Semiduplex+ saint (e.g. St. Nicholas, Dec 6) wins outright with the
+// feria itself commemorated in return — neither of which the original
+// `ordinary-feria` fallback (any saint wins, nothing ever commemorated)
+// could represent. Lent's own ordinary ferias are documented as sharing
+// this same real-world property but are NOT switched to this tier yet —
+// unverified this session, left as `ordinary-feria` pending a future check.
 export type TemporalCategory =
   | 'ordinary-feria'
+  | 'privileged-feria-minor'
   | 'privileged-feria'
   | 'privileged-feria-major'
   | 'ordinary-sunday'
diff --git a/src/calendar/vespers.ts b/src/calendar/vespers.ts
index e3cfca6..4f7fbd5 100644
--- a/src/calendar/vespers.ts
+++ b/src/calendar/vespers.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ function hasFirstVespers(day: LiturgicalDay): boolean {
 function keepsOwnSecondVespers(day: LiturgicalDay): boolean {
   if (
     day.weekday === 'sunday' ||
+    day.temporalCategory === 'privileged-feria-minor' ||
     day.temporalCategory === 'privileged-feria' ||
     day.temporalCategory === 'privileged-feria-major' ||
     isMajorFixedFeastOfTheLord(day.date)
diff --git a/src/data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml b/src/data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml
index 088d748..5945dc1 100644
--- a/src/data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml
+++ b/src/data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@
 # Lent's and Pentecost's Ember days *are* modeled, since those are clean
 # Easter offsets.
 bySeason:
-  advent: { sunday: privileged-sunday, feria: ordinary-feria }
+  # Advent's ordinary ferias verified `privileged-feria-minor` during the
+  # December sanctoral pull (see calendar/types.ts's TemporalCategory doc
+  # comment) -- weaker than the Ember-day `privileged-feria` tier, but real
+  # standing nonetheless, unlike a plain `ordinary-feria`.
+  advent: { sunday: privileged-sunday, feria: privileged-feria-minor }
   # Christmastide's ferias are folded into the privileged-feria default for
   # the whole season as a simplification of "the Octave of Christmas (Dec
   # 25 - Jan 1) is privileged" — slightly overbroad into Jan 2-5, harmless.
diff --git a/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts b/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
index f2ca6bb..bb4b4ec 100644
--- a/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
+++ b/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,31 @@ describe('decideOccurrence — ordinary-feria', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('decideOccurrence — privileged-feria-minor', () => {
+  it('semiduplex or higher wins outright, the feria is commemorated in return', () => {
+    // Verified: St. Nicholas, Semiduplex, outright wins against an
+    // ordinary (non-Ember) Advent Saturday in the real Monastic 1617
+    // engine, with the feria itself commemorated back.
+    for (const rank of ['semiduplex', 'duplex', 'duplex-1-classis'] as const) {
+      const result = decideOccurrence('privileged-feria-minor', 'id', saint(rank));
+      expect(result.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'sanctoral', id: 'x', name: 'St. Ereden', rank });
+      expect(result.commemorations).toEqual([{ kind: 'temporal', id: 'id' }]);
+      expect(result.transfer).toBeUndefined();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('simplex or vigil stays and is commemorated, not transferred', () => {
+    // Verified: St. Bibiana, Simplex, merely commemorated under an
+    // ordinary Advent feria in the real Monastic 1617 engine.
+    for (const rank of ['simplex', 'vigil'] as const) {
+      const result = decideOccurrence('privileged-feria-minor', 'id', saint(rank));
+      expect(result.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'id' });
+      expect(result.commemorations).toEqual([{ kind: 'sanctoral', id: 'x', name: 'St. Ereden', rank }]);
+      expect(result.transfer).toBeUndefined();
+    }
+  });
+});
+
 describe('decideOccurrence — privileged-feria', () => {
   it('behaves exactly like an ordinary Sunday — duplex or higher wins outright, the feria is commemorated in return', () => {
     // Verified: St. Gregory the Great, plain Duplex, outright wins against
diff --git a/tests/calendar/november-sanctoral.test.ts b/tests/calendar/november-sanctoral.test.ts
index 7dd687e..56dd86a 100644
--- a/tests/calendar/november-sanctoral.test.ts
+++ b/tests/calendar/november-sanctoral.test.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,10 @@ describe('November sanctoral pull (first pass)', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('St. Andrew wins outright at Duplex II. classis with a real proper collect and antiphon, alone', () => {
+  it('St. Andrew wins outright at Duplex II. classis with a real proper collect and antiphon, commemorating the Advent feria itself in years his fixed date falls within Advent', () => {
+    // 2026-11-30 is also the Monday within Advent I's own week that year
+    // (privileged-feria-minor, see calendar/types.ts) -- the Advent feria
+    // is commemorated back, confirmed against the live reference engine.
     const day = resolveDay('2026-11-30');
     expect(day.winner).toEqual({
       kind: 'sanctoral',
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ describe('November sanctoral pull (first pass)', () => {
       name: 'St. Andrew, Apostle',
       rank: 'duplex-2-classis',
     });
-    expect(day.commemorations).toEqual([]);
+    expect(day.commemorations).toEqual([{ kind: 'temporal', id: 'advent-1' }]);
     expect(getDayCollect(day).status.en).toBe('verified');
   });
 });