From 0b287925136e79f5c2d71cd49e0285280841d050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:38:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add January Matins readings for SanctiM (Monastic 1617)-track saints MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Starts the bulk-content pass complementary to the pre-1955 saints pass: 11 of January's 13 SanctiM-track saints authored (2 left unsourced — their Nocturn 2/3 content is entirely octave homiletic material, no proper vita text in either track). Most SanctiM files turn out to be thin rule overrides pointing back at the same Sancti/ text; only St. Maurus (Monastic-only, no Sancti file) needed direct SanctiM sourcing, with an original translation for its missing English source. --- TODO.md | 52 ++++++- .../chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml | 133 ++++++++++++++++++ .../conversion-of-st-paul.yml | 80 +++++++++++ .../ss-fabian-and-sebastian.yml | 85 +++++++++++ .../ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml | 88 ++++++++++++ .../propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes.yml | 101 +++++++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-anthony-abbot.yml | 91 ++++++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-felix-presbyter.yml | 46 ++++++ .../st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml | 89 ++++++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-john-chrysostom.yml | 98 +++++++++++++ .../nocturn-readings/st-maurus-abbot.yml | 64 +++++++++ .../propers/nocturn-readings/st-prisca.yml | 40 ++++++ 12 files changed, 965 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/conversion-of-st-paul.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-fabian-and-sebastian.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anthony-abbot.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-felix-presbyter.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-john-chrysostom.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-maurus-abbot.yml create mode 100644 src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-prisca.yml diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md index 341cd09..f44597b 100644 --- a/TODO.md +++ b/TODO.md @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ across every hour and content type in this app. pooled and shown regardless of rank (see "Reading-pool redesign"); expand the per-book Matins responsory pool beyond its one seeded book (`isa`). The pre-1955-but-post-1617 saints (Tridentine/Divino Afflatu-sourced, no Monastic 1617 track) are now done — see - "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below — what's left is the larger pool of saints that - *do* have a Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`), same authoring shape, not yet started. + "Pre-1955 saints' Matins readings" below. The larger pool of saints that *do* have a + Monastic 1617 track (`SanctiM/`) is in progress — see "SanctiM-track saints' Matins + readings" below — January done (11/13), ~140 candidates remain (February onward). - The bulk Vulgate (Latin) + Douay-Rheims (English) scripture import into `src/data/scripture/` — long-term project, explicitly deferred; Matins scripture citations resolve to `missing` text until it lands. @@ -1362,6 +1363,53 @@ the bible-plan bulk conversion) and `npm run build`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass. **Not done in this pass**: the larger pool of saints that *do* have a Monastic 1617 (`SanctiM/`) track — same authoring shape, separate/older backlog item (see priority §2 above). +### SanctiM (Monastic 1617)-track saints' Matins readings — started, January done (2026-08) + +The complementary pool to the pre-1955 pass above: saints with a `SanctiM/MM-DD*.txt` file. +**Method finding, worth recording**: a `SanctiM/MM-DD.txt` file almost always turns out to be +a thin *rule override* (`@Sancti/MM-DD` plus tweaks to psalmody/lesson-count/antiphons), not +independent content — when it doesn't override the Nocturn 2/3 `[LectioN]` sections, that +saint's Monastic-office vita reading is **the same text as the Tridentine `Sancti/MM-DD.txt` +file**, sourced exactly as in the pre-1955 pass above. Only a real Monastic-only saint (one +with no `Sancti/MM-DD*.txt` at all, e.g. `st-maurus-abbot`, who isn't on the general +Tridentine calendar) needs content read directly out of the `SanctiM/` file itself. + +**A second wrinkle, on top of the pre-1955 pass's "don't trust the plain file" one**: the +"does a `SanctiM/MM-DD*.txt` exist for this date" scope check has to be done **per saint, not +per date** — a shared calendar date (two ids mapped to the same `MM-DD`) can have a `SanctiM` +file for one saint's own Tridentine slot while the other saint has no Monastic office at all. +Naively globbing "any `SanctiM/MM-DD*.txt` exists for this date" over-counts: found this by +hand for Jan 18 (`chair-of-st-peter-at-rome` has `SanctiM/01-18.txt`; `st-prisca`, sharing the +date, does not — she was actually a missed pre-1955-pool candidate) and Jan 14 +(`st-hilary-of-poitiers` has `SanctiM/01-14.txt`; `st-felix-presbyter`, sharing the date via +`Sancti/01-14cc.txt`, does not — likewise a missed pre-1955-pool candidate). Both were authored +this pass using the pre-1955 pattern instead. **The 52/117 pre-1955/SanctiM split recorded +above is therefore an undercount on the pre-1955 side** by at least these two; the true +per-saint (not per-date) recomputation used for this pass found **152 ids with a genuine, +correctly-suffix-matched `SanctiM` file** — see memory `vu-matins-pre1955-saints` for the +running correction note. + +**A third finding**: a `Sancti`/`SanctiM` date landing inside the Christmas or Epiphany octave +(e.g. `st-telesphorus` Jan 5, `st-hyginus` Jan 11 — both early popes commemorated on octave +days) can have its entire Nocturn 2/3 given over to octave-of-the-season homiletic content +(a Nativity/Epiphany sermon), with **no proper vita text for the saint at all** in either +track. Correctly left unauthored for these two — not a gap, same category as the pre-1955 +pass's 9 pure-Common exceptions, just a different underlying reason (octave-absorbed, not +Common-of-X). + +**January done (11 saints, 2 left unauthored per the octave finding above)**: +`st-hilary-of-poitiers`, `st-felix-presbyter`, `st-maurus-abbot` (Monastic-only; no English +source translation exists in the reference engine at all for this file, so `en` is this +project's own translation, marked `draft`), `st-anthony-abbot`, `chair-of-st-peter-at-rome` +(Nocturn 2 patristic + Nocturn 3 genuine Gospel-and-homily, both authored), +`st-prisca`, `ss-fabian-and-sebastian`, `st-agnes`, `ss-vincent-and-anastasius`, +`conversion-of-st-paul`, `st-john-chrysostom`. Left unauthored: `st-telesphorus`, +`st-hyginus` (octave-absorbed, see above). `npm test`/`tsc --noEmit` both pass; none of these +are in a test table yet, same as the pre-1955 pass. + +**Not done in this pass**: the remaining ~140 SanctiM-track candidates (February onward) — +same authoring shape, continue month by month. + ### Bible-plan TSV — bulk conversion done (2026-08) All ~369 non-blank rows of the user's own bible-plan TSV (`~/Downloads/bible-plan.tsv`, 390 diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0368ca1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for the Chair of St. Peter at Rome (Jan +# 18) — SanctiM/01-18.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-18`); +# only Lectio4 is overridden (with unrelated Eastertide filler content, +# `@Tempora/Pasc5-0:Lectio3`, evidently a generic 12-lesson-slot filler +# rather than anything about St. Peter, so not used here) — Lectio5-8 +# are not overridden and carry through as this feast's own proper +# content, same as a pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-18.txt, English/Sancti/01-18.txt. +# +# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 (St. Leo the Great's sermon on Ss. Peter and +# Paul) combined into one reading, one continuous excerpt. +# Nocturn 3: Lectio7's Gospel pericope (Matt 16:13-19) is a full short +# passage, authored as a genuine Gospel reading; Lectio7's homily +# portion + Lectio8 (St. Hilary of Poitiers's commentary) combined into +# one reading, one continuous excerpt. No responsory given for either. +id: chair-of-st-peter-at-rome +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 1 on Ss. Peter and Paul" + text: + la: >- + Cum duódecim Apóstoli, accépta per Spíritum Sanctum ómnium locutióne linguárum, imbuéndum + Evangélio mundum, distribútis sibi terrárum pártibus, suscepíssent, beatíssimus Petrus, + princeps apostólici órdinis, ad arcem Románi destinátur impérii, ut lux veritátis, quæ in + ómnium géntium revelabátur salútem, efficácius se ab ipso cápite per totum mundi corpus + effúnderet. Cujus autem natiónis hómines in hac tunc urbe non essent? aut quæ usquam + gentes ignorárent quod Roma didicísset? + + + Hic conculcándæ philosophíæ opiniónes, hic dissolvéndæ erant terrénæ sapiéntiæ vanitátes, + hic confutándi dǽmonum cultus, hic ómnium sacrilegiórum impíetas destruénda, ubi + diligentíssima superstitióne habebátur colléctum quidquid usquam fúerat vanis erróribus + institútum. Ad hanc ergo urbem tu, beatíssime Petre Apóstole, veníre non métuis, et, + consórte glóriæ tuæ Paulo Apóstolo, aliárum adhuc ecclesiárum ordinatiónibus occupáto, + silvam istam freméntium bestiárum, et turbullentíssimæ profunditátis océanum, constántior + quam cum supra mare graderéris, ingréderis. + + + Jam pópulos, qui ex circumcisióne credíderant, erudíeras: jam Antiochénam ecclésiam, ubi + primum christiáni nóminis dignitas est orta, fundáveras: jam Pontum, Galátiam, + Cappadóciam, Asiam atque Bithýniam légibus evangélicæ prædicatiónis impléveras; nec aut + dúbius de provéctu óperis, aut de spátio tuæ ignárus ætátis, trophǽum crucis Christi + Románis árcibus inferébas, quo te divínis præordinatiónibus anteíbant, et honor + potestátis, et glória passiónis. + en: >- + When the twelve holy Apostles had received from the Holy Ghost the power to speak all + languages, they divided the whole world into districts, which they severally allotted to + themselves as fields for their Gospel labours. Then was Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, + sent to the capital city of the Roman Empire, that he might cause the light to shine thence + throughout the whole body of the civilized nations. At that time what nation was there that + had no representative in Rome? When Rome had learnt, what people that did not learn too? + + + In Rome were the dreams of an unbelieving philosophy to be destroyed, in Rome were the + empty utterances of earthly wisdom to be confuted, in Rome was idolatry to be overcome, in + Rome profanity to be put down, even in Rome, where the activity of superstition had + gathered together from the whole earth every error which it could find. O most blessed + Apostle Peter! this was the city to which thou didst not shrink to come. The Apostle Paul, + thy comrade in glory, was yet occupied in founding the Churches, and thou didst enter alone + into that forest of wild beasts roaring furiously; thou didst commit thyself to that stormy + ocean, more boldly than when thou walkest upon the waters to come to Jesus. + + + Thou hadst already taught them of the circumcision who were converted; thou hadst founded + the Church of Antioch, the first that bore the noble name of Christian; thou hadst + published the law of the Gospel throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and + Bithynia; and thou didst not fear for the hardness of thy work, nor turn back because of + thine old age, but didst boldly set up the trophy of the cross of Christ upon those Roman + walls, where the Providence of God had appointed the throne of thine honour, and the + glorious scene of thy passion. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 3 + isGospel: true + citation: { la: "Matt 16:13-19", en: "Matt 16:13-19" } + source: "St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop, Commentary on Matthew 16" + text: + la: >- + In illo témpore: Venit Jesus in partes Cæsaréæ Philíppi, et interrogábat discipulos suos, + dicens: Quem dicunt hómines esse Fílium hóminis? Et réliqua. + + + Dóminus a discípulis requírit, quem se hómines esse dícerent; ut adjécit, hóminis fílium. + Hæc enim confessiónis tenénda rátio est, ut sicut Dei Fílium, ita et fílium hóminis + meminérimus: quia álterum sine áltero nihil spei tríbuit ad salútem. Editis ítaque, quæ + diversæ de eo erant, hóminum opiniónibus, quid de se ipse séntiant quærit. Petrus + respóndit: Tu es Christus Fílius Dei vivi. Sed Petrus conditiónes propositiónis expénderat. + Dóminus enim díxerat: Quem me hómines esse dicunt, fílium hóminis? Et certe fílium hóminis + contemplátio córporis præferébat. Sed addéndo, Quem me esse dicunt, significávit, præter + id quod in se videbátur, esse áliud sentiéndum: erat enim hóminis fílius. Quod ígitur de se + opinándi judícium desiderábat? Non illud arbitrámur, quod de se ipse conféssus est: sed + occúltum erat de quo quærebátur, in quod se credéntium fides debébat exténdere. + + + Et dignum plane conféssio Petri præmium consecúta est, quia Dei Fílium in hómine vidísset. + Beátus hic est, qui ultra humánum óculos intendísse et vidísse laudátus est: non id quod ex + carne et sánguine erat cóntuens, sed Dei Fílium cæléstis Patris revelatióne conspíciens; + dignúsque judicátus, qui quod in Christo Dei esset, primus agnósceret. O in nuncupatióne + novi nóminis felix Ecclésiæ fundaméntum, dígnaque ædificatióne illíus petra, quæ inférnas + leges, et tártari portas, et ómnia mortis claustra dissólveret! O beátus cæli jánitor, + cujus arbítrio claves ætérni áditus tradúntur, cujus terréstre judícium præjudicáta + auctóritas sit in cælo! + en: >- + At that time, Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, + saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? And so on. + + + The Lord asketh His disciples who men say that He is, and He addeth, He, the Son of Man. + Let us ever remember to hold fast this truth of our profession, namely, that the Son of God + is the Son of Man also. Were He one and not the other, then were He no Saviour for us. The + Lord then, having heard the various opinions of men, asketh, But Who say ye that I am? And + Simon Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Peter had + weighed the questions. The Lord had asked, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? That + He was Son of Man was sufficiently evident to all who looked upon His Body. But when He + spake of His whole Self, and asked, Who do ye say that I am? He showed that the mind had + something to grasp beyond That Which was seen, for Son of Man He was manifestly. What + judgment did He wish them to give? I think it was not that which He had owned concerning + Himself. That something more, which He wished them to own, was a hidden thing, whereunto + the faith of them that believed in Him was to reach. + + + Peter's confession was followed by a proper reward for having seen the Son of God in the + Son of Man. Blessed is this holy Apostle, in whose praise it is said that he saw with more + than human eyes That Which was unseen, who gazed upon Flesh and Blood, and by the secret + revelation of the Heavenly Father recognised the Eternal Son of God; who was the first + thought worthy to acknowledge the Divinity of Christ. God bless thee, O Peter, thou who by + uttering for the first time the title of Divine honour, didst lay the goodly foundation of + the Church! God bless thee, thou worthy rock whereon she is built, for ever triumphant over + the infernal powers, the gates of hell, and the bands of death! God bless thee, happy + door-keeper of heaven, to whose keeping are given the keys of the everlasting mansions, + whose sentences on earth are already confirmed in heaven. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/conversion-of-st-paul.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/conversion-of-st-paul.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..189b844 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/conversion-of-st-paul.yml @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for the Conversion of St. Paul (Jan 25) — +# SanctiM/01-25.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-25`) with no +# Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is sourced +# from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see +# memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). A second Tridentine suffix variant +# (`Sancti/01-25r.txt`) also exists for this same feast, but is a later +# rubric variant with less of its own text (its Lectio4 is itself +# `@Sancti/01-25:Lectio3`) — the plain `01-25.txt` has the fuller, +# earlier proper text and is used here. +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-25.txt, English/Sancti/01-25.txt. +# Lectio4-6 (St. Augustine's sermon on Paul's conversion) combined into +# one reading, one continuous excerpt — Lectio7-9 fall back to Common +# of an Apostle (`Commune/C1`), not proper text, so not authored here. +# No responsory given in the source for these lessons. +id: conversion-of-st-paul +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Sermon 14 on the Saints" + text: + la: >- + Hódie de Actibus Apostolórum léctio hæc pronuntiáta est, ubi Paulus Apóstolus, ex + persecutóre Christianórum, annuntiátor factus est Christi. Prostrávit enim Christus + persecutórem, ut fáceret Ecclésiæ doctórem: percútiens eum, et sanans; occídens, et + vivíficans: occísus agnus a lupis, et fáciens agnos de lupis. Ita enim in præclára + prophetía cum Jacob Patriárcha benedíceret fíliis suis (præséntes tangens, futúra + prospíciens) prædíctum erat quod in Paulo cóntigit. Erat autem Paulus, sicut ipse testátur, + de tribu Bénjamin. Cum autem Jacob, benedícens fílios suos, venísset ad benedicéndum + Bénjamin, ait de illo: Bénjamin lupus rapax. + + + Quid ergo? lupus rapax semper? Absit; sed qui mane rapit prædam, ad vésperam dívidit + escas. Hoc in Apóstolo Paulo implétum est, quia et de illo dictum erat. Jam, si placet, + audiámus illum mane rapiéntem, ad vésperam escas dividéntem. Mane et véspere pósita sunt + pro eo, ac si dicerétur, prius et póstea. Sic ergo accipiámus: Prius rápiet, póstea + dívidet escas. Atténdite raptórem: Saulus, inquit, accéptis epístolis a princípibus + sacerdótum, ibat, ut ubicúmque inveníret Christiános, ad sacerdótes attráheret et + addúceret, útique puniéndos. + + + Ibat spirans et anhélans cædes: hoc est, mane rápiens. Nam et quando lapidátus est + Stéphanus primus Martyr pro nómine Christi, evidéntius áderat et Saulus; et sic áderat + lapidántibus, ut non ei suffíceret, si tantum suis mánibus lapidáret. Ut enim esset in + ómnium lapidántium mánibus, ipse ómnium vestiménta servábat; magis sǽviens omnes + adjuvándo, quam suis mánibus lapidándo. Audívimus, mane rápiet: videámus ad vésperam + quáliter dívidat escas. Voce Christi prostrátus de cælo, et accípiens désuper interdíctum + jam sæviéndi, cécidit in fáciem suam, prius prosternéndus, póstea erigéndus; prius + percutiéndus, póstea sanándus. + en: >- + We have this day heard read out of the Acts of the Apostles how that the Apostle Paul, from + being a persecutor of the Christians, was changed into a preacher of Christ. Christ laid + low the persecutor, that He might raise him up a teacher of His Church. He smote and healed + him, slew him and made him alive again. For the Lord Christ is that Lamb That was Himself + slain by the wolves, and That now turneth the wolves into lambs. Now was fulfilled in Paul + that which was clearly spoken in prophecy by the Patriarch Jacob, when he blessed his + children, laying hands indeed on them which then were, but looking forward to the things + which were yet for to come. Paul beareth witness of himself that he was of the tribe of + Benjamin, and when Jacob blessed his sons, and came to bless Benjamin, he said: Benjamin + shall ravin as a wolf. + + + What then? Is Benjamin a wolf that shall ravin for ever? God forbid. In the morning he + shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. This is exactly what was + fulfilled in the Apostle Paul. If it please you, we will now consider how in the morning he + devoured the prey, and at night divided the spoil. Here morning and evening are put for the + beginning and the end. So we may read, In the beginning he shall devour the prey, and at + the end he shall divide the spoil. First, then, in the beginning, he devoured the prey. So + it is written that he received letters from the chief priests and went forth, that + wheresoever he should find any Christians, he might bring them bound unto the priests, that + they might be punished. + + + He went breathing out threatenings and slaughter, yea, truly, devouring the prey. When also + they stoned Stephen, the first Martyr that laid down his life for Christ's name's sake, + Saul was consenting unto his death, and, as though it contented him not to stone him, he + kept the clothes of all them that did it, urging them on more than if he had joined them. + So in the morning he devoured the prey. How in the evening did he divide the spoil? Struck + down by the voice of Christ from heaven, ravining no more, he falleth upon his face, cast + down to be raised up, smitten to be healed. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-fabian-and-sebastian.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-fabian-and-sebastian.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee794a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-fabian-and-sebastian.yml @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Fabian, Pope, and Sebastian, Martyrs +# (Jan 20) — SanctiM/01-20.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-20`) +# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this feast's own proper content is +# sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint +# (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-20.txt, English/Sancti/01-20.txt. +# Lectio4 (Fabian's own vita) and Lectio5-6 (Sebastian's, one +# continuous account) are genuinely distinct martyrs, kept split. +# Lectio7-9 fall back to Common of Several Martyrs (`Commune/C3`), not +# proper text, so not authored here. No responsory given in the source. +id: ss-fabian-and-sebastian +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Fabiánus Románus, a Maximíno usque ad Décium regens Ecclésiam, septem diáconis regiónes + divísit, qui páuperum curam habérent. Tótidem subdiáconos creávit, qui res gestas + Mártyrum a septem notáriis scriptas collígerent. Idem státuit, ut quotánnis féria quinta + in Cœna Dómini, vétere combústo, chrisma renovarétur. Dénique décimo tértio Kaléndas + Februárii in persecutióne Décii martýrio coronátus, in cœmetério Callísti via Appia + sepelítur, cum sedísset annos quíndecim, dies quátuor. Hic fecit ordinatiónes quinque + mense Decémbri, quibus creávit presbýteros vigínti duos, diáconos septem, epíscopos per + divérsa loca úndecim. + en: >- + Fabian was a Roman, and sat as Pope from the reign of the Emperor Maximin till that of + Decius. He appointed a Deacon to each of the seven districts of Rome to look after the + poor. He likewise appointed the same number of Subdeacons to collect the acts of the + Martyrs from the records kept by the seven district notaries. It was by him that it was + ordained that every Maundy Thursday the old Chrism should be burnt and new consecrated. He + was crowned with martyrdom upon the 20th of January, in the persecution of Decius, and + buried in the cemetery of St. Kallistus on the Appian Way, having sat in the throne of + Peter fifteen years and four days. He held five Advent ordinations, in which he ordained + twenty-two Priests, seven Deacons, and eleven Bishops for diverse Sees. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Sebastiánus ex patre Narbonénsi, matre Mediolanénsi natus, ob géneris nobilitátem et + virtútem Diocletiáno carus fuit. Dux primæ cohórtis, Christiános, quorum fidem clam + colébat, ópera et facultátibus adjuvábat; et qui ex eis tormentórum vim reformidáre + videbántur, cohortatióne sic confirmábat, ut pro Jesu Christo multi se ultro tortóribus + offérrent. In illis fuére Marcus et Marcelliánus fratres, qui Romæ in custódia erant apud + Nicóstratum: cujus uxor Zoë vocem, quam amíserat, Sebastiáni oratióne recuperávit. Quibus + Diocletiáno delátis, Sebastiánum accérsit, et veheméntius objurgátum ómnibus artifíciis a + Christi fide conátur avértere. Sed cum nihil nec pollicéndo, nec terréndo profíceret, ad + palum alligátum sagíttis confígi jubet. + + + Quem ómnium opinióne mórtuum noctu sancta múlier Iréne sepeliéndi grátia jussit auférri; + sed vivum repértum domi suæ curávit. Itaque paulo post confirmáta valetúdine, Diocletiáno + óbviam factus, ejus impietátem libérius accusávit. Cujus aspéctu cum ille primum + obstupuísset, quod mórtuum créderet; rei novitáte et acri Sebastiáni reprehensióne + excandéscens, eum támdiu virgis cædi imperávit, donec ánimam Deo rédderet. Ejus corpus in + cloácam dejéctum Lucína, a Sebastiáno in somnis admónita ubi esset et quo loco humári + vellet, ad Catacúmbas sepelívit, ubi sancti Sebastiáni nómine célebris ecclésia est + ædificáta. + en: >- + The father of Sebastian was of Narbonne, and his mother a Milanese. He was a great + favourite of the Emperor Diocletian, both on account of his noble birth and his personal + bravery, and was by him appointed captain of the first company of the Praetorian Guards. He + was in secret a Christian, and often supported the others both by good offices and money. + When some showed signs of yielding under persecution, he so successfully exhorted them, + that, for Jesus Christ's sake, many offered themselves to the tormentors. Among these were + the brothers Mark and Marcellian who were imprisoned at Rome in the house of Nicostratus. + The wife of Nicostratus himself, named Zoe, had lost her voice, but it was restored to her + at the prayer of Sebastian. These facts becoming known to Diocletian, he sent for + Sebastian, and after violently rebuking him, used every means to turn him from his faith in + Christ. But as neither promises nor threats availed, he ordered him to be tied to a post + and shot to death with arrows. + + + Sebastian was treated accordingly, and left for dead, but in the night the holy widow Irene + sent for the body in order to bury it, and then found that he was still alive, and nursed + him in her own house. As soon as his health was restored, he went out to meet Diocletian, + and boldly rebuked him for his wickedness. The Emperor was first thunderstruck at the sight + of a man whom he believed to have been some time dead, but afterwards, frenzied with rage + at the reproaches of Sebastian, ordered him to be beaten to death with rods, under which + torment the martyr yielded his blessed soul to God. His body was thrown into a sewer, but + he appeared in sleep to Lucina, and made known to her where it was, and where he would have + it buried. She accordingly found it and laid it in those Catacombs, over which a famous + Church hath since been built, called St. Sebastian's-without-the-Walls. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0292e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/ss-vincent-and-anastasius.yml @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 readings for Ss. Vincent and Anastasius, Martyrs +# (Jan 22) — SanctiM/01-22M.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-22`), +# only overriding the collect wording to single out Vincent (the +# Monastic office demotes this to Simplex, honouring Vincent alone via +# the Common of a Martyr) — but Lectio4-6, Sancti/01-22's own proper +# text about both martyrs, is not overridden, so it's sourced from the +# Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints); authored here for both martyrs together +# per this app's own calendar id, following "prefer real text over +# a rank-driven Common substitution" (vu-prefer-text-over-missing). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-22.txt, English/Sancti/01-22.txt. +# Lectio4-5 (Vincent's own vita) combined into one reading, no internal +# break. Lectio6 (Anastasius's vita) is a genuinely distinct martyr, +# kept separate. No responsory given in the source. +id: ss-vincent-and-anastasius +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Vincentius, Oscæ in Hispánia citeriore natus, a prima ætate stúdiis déditus, sacras + litteras a Valerio Cæsaraugustano episcopo didicit; cujus étiam partes suscépit + prædicándi Evangélium, quod epíscopus, propter linguæ impediméntum, prædicatiónis officio + fungi non poterat. Ea re ad Dacianum, provinciæ a Diocletiáno et Maximiáno præpositum, + delata, Vincentius Cæsaraugustæ comprehénditur, et vinctus ad Dacianum Valéntiam + adducitur. Ubi verbéribus et equuleo tortus, multis præséntibus, cum nulla aut + tormentórum vi, aut acerbitate vel lenitate verbórum a proposito deterreri posset; in + cratícula impositus, prunis ardéntibus suppositis, ac férreis unguibus excarnificatus, + candentibúsque láminis exustus, íterum ducitur in carcerem stratum testáceis fragméntis, + ut ejus nudum corpus, somno oppressum, a subjectis étiam testárum aculeis torquerétur. + + + Verum, illo in tenebricosa incluso custódia, claríssimus splendor obortus totum carcerem + illustrávit; quæ lux cum summa admiratióne omnes, qui aderant, affecísset, res a custode + carceris ad Dacianum defertur. Qui eductum in molli cúlcitra collocat; et quem cruciátibus + in suam senténtiam trahere non poterat, deliciis perducere conátur. Sed invictus Vincentii + animus, Jesu Christi fide speque munítus, vicit ómnia; et ignis, ferri, tortórum + immanitate superata, victor ad cælestem martyrii corónam advolávit, undecimo Kalendas + Februarii. Cujus corpus, cum projectum esset inhumátum, corvus et a volucribus et a lupo + únguibus, rostro, alis mirabíliter defendit. Qua re cógnita, Dacianus illud in altum mare + demergi jubet: sed inde étiam divinitus ejectum ad littus, Christiáni sepeliunt. + en: >- + Vincent was born at Huesca in Aragon in Spain. He was early turned to study, and learned + sacred letters from Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa. He was accustomed to deliver discourses + for this Prelate, who, owing to an impediment in his speech, was not able to preach + himself. This coming to the ears of Dacian, Prefect of the province under Diocletian and + Maximian, he caused Vincent to be arrested at Saragossa, and brought before him at Valencia + in bonds. The saint was scourged, and afterwards tormented on the rack, in presence of + numerous spectators, but neither torture, threats, nor fair words could bend his + resolution. He was then laid on a grating over hot coals, his flesh mangled with iron + hooks, and white-hot plates of metal applied to the wounds. The still breathing remains + were taken back to a prison, and laid on broken potsherds, that the agony of his naked body + might prevent his sleeping from exhaustion. + + + As he lay in his dark cell, a glorious light suddenly filled the prison, to the + astonishment of all who saw it. The gaoler informed Dacian, who caused the martyr to be + brought out and cared for in a soft bed, hoping that though he had failed to move him by + cruelty, he might seduce him by pretended kindness. But the indomitable soul of Vincent, + armed with faith and hope in Christ Jesus, remained unconquered even to the end, and + triumphing over the fire, the steel, and the cruelty of the tormentors, passed away to + receive the victorious crown of martyrdom in heaven, on the 22nd day of January. His body + was thrown out unburied. A raven perched upon it and kept off with his beak, claws, and + wings both the other birds and a wolf, which came to prey on it. Dacian then had it thrown + into the sea, but by the will of God it was washed up again, and the Christians took and + buried it. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } + + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Anastasius Persa, monachus, Heraclío imperatóre, cum sanctam Jerosolymórum terram + visitasset, ad Cæsaréam Palæstinæ pro Christi religióne víncula et verbera constanter + perpéssus est. Mox a Persis ob eamdem causam variis cruciátibus afféctus, a rege Chósroa + una cum septuagínta aliis Christiánis secúri percútitur. Cujus relíquiæ primum + Jerosolymam ad monastérium, in quo monasticam vitam proféssus erat, deínde Romam delátæ, + collocátæ sunt in monasterio ad Aquas Sálvias. + en: >- + Anastasius was a Persian monk who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Places at Jerusalem in the + reign of the Emperor Heraclius, during which journey he endured bonds and stripes on + account of his confession of Christ at Banias, then called Caesarea, in Palestine. Soon + after his return, he was arrested by the Persians for the same cause, and, after enduring + diverse torments, he and seventy other Christians were beheaded by order of King Chosroes. + His reliques were first carried to Jerusalem, to the monastery in which he had made his + monastic profession, and afterwards to Rome, where they were laid in the monastery of + Saints Vincent and Anastasius. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0c5acb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-agnes.yml @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 21) — +# SanctiM/01-21.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-21`), overriding +# only some antiphon/versicle numbering by simple arithmetic +# substitution (renumbering, not new text) — Lectio4-6 carry through +# unchanged as this feast's own proper content, same as a pre-1955 +# saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-21.txt, English/Sancti/01-21.txt. +# Lectio4-6 (St. Ambrose's sermon on virgins, discussing Agnes) combined +# into one reading, one continuous excerpt. No responsory given in the +# source for these lessons. +id: st-agnes +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + source: "St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, On Virgins, Bk. 1" + text: + la: >- + Hódie natális est Vírginis, integritátem sequámur. Natális est Mártyris, hóstias + immolémus. Natális est sanctæ Agnétis, miréntur viri, non despérent párvuli, stúpeant + nuptæ, imiténtur innúptæ. Sed quid dignum ea loqui póssumus, cujus ne nomen quidem vácuum + laudis est? Devótio supra ætátem, virtus supra natúram: ut mihi videátur non hóminis + habuísse nomen, sed oráculum Mártyris, quod indicávit, quid esset futúra. Nomen Vírginis + títulus est pudóris. Appellábo Mártyrem: prædicávi satis. Prolíxa laudátio est, quæ non + quǽritur, sed tenétur. Nemo est laudabílior, quam qui ab ómnibus laudári potest. Quot + hómines, tot præcónes, qui Mártyrem prædícant, dum loquúntur. + + + Hæc trédecim annórum martýrium fecísse tráditur. Quo detestabílior crudélitas quæ nec + minúsculæ pepércit ætáti; immo magna vis fídei, quæ étiam ab illa testimónium invénit + ætáte. Fuítne in illo corpúsculo vúlneri locus? Et quæ non hábuit quo ferrum recíperet, + hábuit quo ferrum vínceret. Hæc inter cruéntas carníficum impávida manus, hæc stridéntium + grávibus immóbilis tráctibus catenárum, nunc furéntis mucróni mílitis totum offérre + corpus, mori adhuc néscia, sed paráta, vel si ad aras invíta raperétur, téndere Christo + inter ignes manus, atque in ipsis sacrílegis focis trophǽum Dómini signáre victóris: nunc + ferrátis colla manúsque ambas insérere néxibus. Sed nullus tam tenúia membra póterat + nexus inclúdere. Novum martýrii genus! Nondum idónea pœnæ, et jam matúra victóriæ; + certáre diffícilis, fácilis coronári: magistérium virtútis implévit, quæ præjudícium + vehébat ætátis. + + + Non sic ad thálamum nupta properáret, ut ad supplícii locum, læta succéssu, gradu + festína Virgo procéssit. Flere omnes, ipsa sine fletu. Mirári pleríque, quod tam fácile + vitæ suæ pródiga, quam nondum háuserat, jam quasi perfúncta donáret. Stupére univérsi, + quod jam divinitátis testis exsísteret, quæ adhuc árbitra sui per ætátem esse non posset. + Quanto terróre egit cárnifex ut timerétur, quantis blandítiis ut suadéret, quantórum + vota, ut sibi ad núptias proveníret! At illa: Et hæc Sponsi injúria est, inquit, + exspectáre placitúram. Qui me sibi prior elégit, accípiet: quid, percússor, moráris? + Péreat corpus, quod amári potest óculis, quibus nolo. Stetit, orávit, cervícem infléxit. + Cérneres trepidáre carníficem, quasi ipse addíctus fuísset, trémere percussóris déxteram, + pallére ora aliéno timéntis perículo, cum puélla non timéret suo. Habétis ígitur in una + hóstia duplex martýrium, pudóris et religiónis. Et virgo permánsit, et martýrium obtínuit. + en: >- + This is a virgin's birthday; let us then follow the example of her chastity. It is a + Martyr's birthday; let us then offer sacrifices. It is the birthday of the holy Agnes; let + men then be filled with wonder, little ones with hope, married women with awe, and the + unmarried with emulation. But how shall I set forth the glory of her whose very name is an + utterance of praise? It seemeth to me that this being, holy beyond her years, and strong + beyond human nature, received the name of Agnes, not as an earthly designation, but as a + revelation from God of what she was to be. For this name Agnes is from the Greek, and being + interpreted, signifieth Pure. So that this saintly maiden is known by the very title of + Chastity, and when I have added thereto the word Martyr, I have said enough. She needeth + not the praise which we could utter, but do not. None is more praiseworthy than she for + whose praise all mouths are fitted. As many as name her, so many praise her, by the noble + title of martyr. + + + We learn by tradition that this holy martyr testified in the thirteenth year of her age. + We will pass by the foul cruelty which did not spare her tender years, to contemplate the + great power of her faith, whereby she overcame the weakness of childhood, and witnessed a + good confession. Her little body was hardly big enough to give play to the instruments of + their cruelty, but if they could scarce sheathe their swords in her slight frame, they + found in her that which laughed the power of the sword to scorn. She had no fear when she + found herself grasped by the bloody hands of the executioners. She was unmoved when they + dragged her with clanging chains. Hardly entered on life, she stood fully prepared to die. + She quailed not when the weapons of the angry soldiery were pointed at her breast. If they + forced her against her will to approach the altars of devils, she could stretch forth her + hands to Christ amid the very flames which consumed the idolatrous offerings, and mark on + the heathen shrine the victorious Cross of the Lord. She was ready to submit her neck and + hands to the iron shackles, but they were too big to clasp her slender limbs. Behold a + strange martyr! She is not grown of stature to fight the battle, but she is ripe for the + triumph; too weak to run in the race, and yet clearly entitled to the prize; unable from her + age to be aught but a learner, she is found a teacher. + + + She went to the place of execution a virgin, with more willing and joyful footsteps than + she would have gone with to the nuptial chamber as a bride. The spectators were all in + tears, and she alone did not weep. They beheld her with wonder, laying down that life of + which she had hardly begun to taste the sweets, as freely as though she had drained it to + the dregs and was weary of its burden. All men were amazed when they saw her whose years + had not made her her own mistress, arise as a witness for the Deity. Consider how many + threats her murderer used to excite her fears, how many arguments to shake her resolution, + how many promises to bribe her to accept his offers of marriage. But she answered him It is + an insult to Him Whom I have wedded to expect me to comply. He That first chose me, His + will I be. Headsman, why waitest thou? Perish the body which draweth the admiration of eyes + from which I would turn away. She stood, prayed, and then bent her neck for the stroke. Now + mightest thou have seen the murderer trembling as though he himself were the criminal, the + executioner's hand shake, and the faces of them that stood by turn white at the sight of + her position, and all the while herself remain without fear. This one victim brought God a + double offering, that of her purity, and that of her faith. She preserved virginity and + achieved martyrdom. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anthony-abbot.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anthony-abbot.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95a6db0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-anthony-abbot.yml @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Anthony Abbot (Jan 17) — SanctiM/01-17.txt +# inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-17`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, +# so this saint's own vita is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly +# as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-17.txt, English/Sancti/01-17.txt. +# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine +# source break. No responsory given in the source. +id: st-anthony-abbot +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Antonius Ægyptius, nobílibus et christiánis paréntibus natus, quibus adoléscens orbátus + est, cum ingréssus ecclésiam ex Evangelio audivísset: Si vis perfectus esse, vade, et + vende ómnia quæ habes, et da paupéribus; tamquam ea sibi dicta essent, sic Christo Dómino + obtemperándum existimávit. Itaque, véndita re familiari, pecúniam omnem paupéribus + distríbuit. Quibus solutus impedimentis, cæléstis vitæ genus in terris cólere instituit. + Sed cum in periculósum illud certamen descenderet, ad fidei præsidium, quo erat armatus, + adhibéndum sibi putávit subsidium reliquárum virtútum; quarum tanto studio incénsus fuit, + ut, quemcúmque vidéret áliqua virtútis laude excelléntem, illum imitari studéret. + + + Nihil ígitur eo continentius, nihil vigilantius erat. Patiéntia, mansuetúdine, + misericórdia, humilitate, labóre, ac studio divinárum Scripturárum superábat omnes. Ab + hæreticórum et schismaticórum hóminum, maxime Arianórum, congressu et colloquio sic + abhorrebat, ut ne prope quidem ad eos accedéndum díceret. Humi jacebat, cum eum necessarius + somnus occupasset. Jejunium autem adeo coluit, ut salem tantummodo ad panem adhibéret, + sitim aqua exstingueret; neque se ante solis occásum cibo aut potu recreabat, sæpe étiam + biduum cibo abstinebat; sæpíssime in oratióne pernoctábat. Cum talis tantusque Dei miles + evasísset Antonius, sanctíssimum juvenem hostis humani generis variis tentatiónibus + aggréditur, quas ille jejunio et oratióne vincebat. Nec vero frequens de sátana triumphus + securum reddebat Antónium, qui diaboli innumerábiles artes nocéndi nóverat. + + + Itaque cóntulit se in vastíssimam Ægypti solitúdinem: ubi quotídie ad christianam + perfectiónem proficiens, dæmones (quorum tanto erant acriores ímpetus, quanto Antonius ad + resisténdum fortior evadebat) ita contempsit, ut illis exprobraret imbecillitátem; ac sæpe + discipulos suos éxcitans ad pugnándum contra diabolum, docensque quibus armis vincerétur: + Mihi credite, dicebat, fratres, pertimescit sátanas piórum vigílias, oratiónes, jejunia, + voluntáriam paupertátem, misericórdiam et humilitátem, maxime vero ardentem amórem in + Christum Dóminum, cujus único sanctíssimæ crucis signo debilitátus áufugit. Sic autem + dæmónibus erat formidolósus, ut multi per Ægyptum ab illis agitati, invocáto nómine + Antonii liberaréntur: tántaque erat ejus fama sanctitátis, ut per litteras se ejus + oratiónibus Constantinus Magnus et fílii commendarent. Qui aliquándo quintum et + centésimum annum agens, cum innumerábiles sui institúti imitatores haberet, convocátis + mónachis et ad perféctam christianæ vitæ regulam instructis, sanctitáte et miraculis + clarus migrávit in cælum, décimo sexto Kalendas Februarii. + en: >- + Anthony was an Egyptian, the child of noble and Christian parents, whom he lost while yet + very young. On one occasion he entered a Church, and heard these words of the Gospel, If + thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. He took these words + as if they were addressed to himself personally, for this was the obedience which he + thought every word of the Lord Christ should meet with. He therefore sold his whole + possessions, and gave the price to the poor. Being thus delivered from worldly + entanglements, he set himself to lead on earth the life of an angel. Finding himself, as it + were, about to enter the field of battle against Satan, he thought it wisest to add to the + shield of faith, which he already possessed, all the rest of the armour of God, wherefore + he observed all those who were eminent for any grace, and strove to copy them. + + + He was excelled by none in watchfulness and self-restraint. He surpassed all in + long-suffering, meekness, tenderness, lowliness, perseverance, and continual study of the + Holy Scriptures. He had such a loathing of the company and conversation of heretics and + schismatics, especially Arians, that he used to say that a faithful Christian ought as far + as possible never to come near any such. He took the sleep which was needful for the body + lying on the ground. Such was his devotion to fasting, that he took nothing with his bread + but salt, and drank only water; he never ate or drank before sunset; he often abstained + from food altogether for two days at a time; and very often passed whole nights in prayer. + Being so valiant a soldier of God, Anthony was attacked by the devil with diverse + temptations, but he overcame them all by prayer and fasting. Nevertheless, these frequent + triumphs over Satan did not lull Anthony into security, for he was well aware of the + numberless arts of assault possessed by the evil one. + + + Then he betook himself into the vast deserts of Africa that lie near Egypt. Day by day he + advanced on the path to perfection. Day by day the attacks of the fiends became more + violent, but day by day his strength grew greater to strive against them. At length he came + to mock at the powerlessness of the devils, against whom he stirred up his disciples to + fight, teaching them with what arms to combat. Believe me, my brethren, he used to say, + Satan is afraid of good men's watchings, and prayers, and fasts, and voluntary poverty, and + mercifulness, and lowliness, but above all, of their warm love for Christ our Lord, the + mere sign of Whose most holy Cross is enough to undo him and put him to flight. He became + such an object of dread to the devils, that many persons throughout Egypt who were + tormented by them, were delivered by calling on his name; moreover the fame of his holiness + was so spread abroad, that Constantine the Great and his sons wrote to him to commend + themselves to his prayers. In the hundred and fifth year of his age, and the fulness of + his reputation for piety and miracles, having roused up great numbers to follow his + example, he gathered his monks around him, and when he had exhorted them to strive after + Christian perfection, he passed to heaven on the 17th day of January. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-felix-presbyter.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-felix-presbyter.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..489ca3c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-felix-presbyter.yml @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Felix of Nola, Priest and Confessor +# (Jan 14, sharing the date with St. Hilary — see st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml). +# No SanctiM/01-14cc*.txt (only the plain SanctiM/01-14.txt exists, and +# that one bases on Sancti/01-14 i.e. Hilary, not Felix) — same +# "check every suffix variant, the shared plain file isn't necessarily +# yours" wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# Felix's own content survives only at the suffixed Tridentine file: +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-14cc.txt, English/Sancti/01-14cc.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no +# responsory given in the source. +id: st-felix-presbyter +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Felix Nolanus presbyter, cum in idola vehementius inveherétur, ab infidelibus varie + vexatus, in carcerem conjícitur. Unde ab Angelo nocte edúctus, quærere jussus est + Maximianum Nolæ episcopum: qui cum senio confectus desperáret se ferre posse supplícia + persequéntium, se abdíderat in silvam. Quo cum Felix Deo duce pervenísset, sanctum + episcopum humi jacéntem pene mortuum videt; quem recreátum ac sublátum in humeros, apud + fidélem víduam reficiéndum curávit. Sed cum is íterum idolórum cultores impietátis + argúeret, facto in ipsum ímpetu, fúgiens in angusto duórum paríetum intervállo se + occultávit; qui áditus cum repénte araneárum telis pertextus visus esset, némini recentis + látebræ suspiciónem relíquit. Inde ígitur evádens Felix in ædibus piæ mulíeris tres menses + látuit. Cum vero Dei Ecclésia requiéscere cœpísset, Nolam rédiens, multisque ibi vitæ + exemplis, et doctrinæ præceptis, miraculisque ad Christi fidem conversis, constanter étiam + recusato ejus urbis episcopatu, obdormívit in Dómino, sepultúsque est prope Nolam in loco, + quem in Pincis appellábant. + en: >- + Felix was a Priest of Nola, who on account of his fiery zeal against idolatry, suffered + much persecution from the heathens, and was cast into prison. From thence an angel + delivered him by night, and bade him go to Maximian, Bishop of Nola. This Bishop, enfeebled + by old age, had at length despaired of power to withstand the torments of the persecutors, + and had hidden himself in a wood. Thither came Felix, by the will of God, and found the + holy bishop lying half-dead upon the ground. He succoured him, and carried him upon his + shoulders to the house of an holy widow. On another occasion, Felix, having again provoked + the anger of the devil-worshippers, became an object of their pursuit, from which he hid + himself in a narrow place between two walls. Hardly had he entered, when some spiders wove + their webs across the entrance, which the enemy perceiving, concluded that no man had + entered, and passed by. After leaving this hiding-place, Felix lay for three months in the + house of an holy woman. After the Lord gave peace to His Church, the Saint returned to + Nola, where he turned many to Christ by his life, his preaching, and his miracles. He + steadily refused to accept the Bishopric, fell asleep in the Lord, and was buried at Nola + in the place called The Pines. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..782fee0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-hilary-of-poitiers.yml @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop, Confessor, +# Doctor (Jan 14) — SanctiM/01-14.txt inherits the whole day (`@Sancti/01-14`) +# with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own vita is sourced from +# the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 saint (see memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints/vu-reference-engine-file-layout). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-14.txt, English/Sancti/01-14.txt. +# Lectio4-5 combined with Lectio6 (itself internally split into +# `Lectio6beginning`/`Lectio6recentaddition` by the source, purely to +# splice in a later Vatican-added closing paragraph about his 1851 +# Doctor-of-the-Church declaration) — all one continuous vita, no +# genuine source change. Lectio7-9 fall back to Common of a Doctor +# (`Commune/C4a`), not proper text, so not authored here. No responsory +# given in the source for these lessons. +id: st-hilary-of-poitiers +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Hilárius, in Aquitánia nóbili génere natus, doctrína et eloquéntia excélluit. Qui primum in + matrimónio quasi mónachi vitam egit: deínde propter singuláres virtútes Pictavórum epíscopus + creátur: quod munus episcopále sic gessit, ut a fidélibus summam laudem consequerétur. Quo + témpore, cum terróribus, bonórum spoliatióne, exsílio, et omni crudelitáte Constántius + imperátor Cathólicos vexáret, nisi ad Ariánas partes transírent; Hilárius tamquam + firmíssimum murum se Ariánis oppónens, illórum furórem in se concitávit. Itaque multis + petítus insídiis, tandem dolo Saturníni Arelaténsis epíscopi, de sýnodo Biterrénsi in + Phrýgiam relegátus est: ubi et mórtuum suscitávit, et libros duódecim scripsit de Trinitáte + contra Ariános. + + + Quadriénnio post coácto concílio ad Seléuciam, Isáuriæ urbem, Hilárius adésse compúlsus est: + ac deínde Constantinópolim proféctus, ubi extrémum fídei perículum animadvértit, tribus + libéllis públice datis, audiéntiam imperatóris popóscit, ut de fide cum adversáriis coram + disputáret. Verum cum Ursácius et Valens Ariáni epíscopi, quos Hilárius scriptis + confutárat, præséntis eruditiónem pertiméscerent, Constántio persuasérunt, ut spécie + honóris eum in suum episcopátum restitúeret. Tunc Hilárium e prǽlio hæreticórum + reverténtem, ut inquit sanctus Hierónymus, Galliárum ecclésia cómplexa est: quem ad + episcopátum secútus est Martínus, qui póstea Turonénsi prǽfuit ecclésiæ; tantúmque illo + doctóre profécit, quantum ejus póstea sánctitas declarávit. + + + Magna deínceps tranquillitáte Pictavórum ecclésiam administrávit: Galliámque univérsam + addúxit, ut Arianórum impietátem condemnáret. Multos libros scripsit mira eruditióne; quos + omnes sanctus Hierónymus ad Lætam, sine ulla erróris suspicióne legi posse testátur illis + verbis: Hilárii libros inoffénso decúrrat pede. Migrávit in cælum Idibus Januárii, + Valentiniáno et Valénte imperatóribus, anno post Christum natum trecentésimo sexagésimo + nono. Eum a multis Pátribus et concíliis insígnem Ecclésiæ Doctórem nuncupátum, atque uti + talem in áliquot diœcésibus cultum, tandem instánte sýnodo Burdigalénsi Pius nonus Póntifex + máximus, ex sacrórum Rítuum Congregatiónis consúlto, universális Ecclésiæ Doctórem + declarávit et confirmávit, ac ipsíus festo die Missam et Offícium de Doctóribus ab ómnibus + recitári jussit. + en: >- + This Hilary was born of a noble family in Aquitaine, and is distinguished as a divine and + an orator. He was married in his earlier life, but even then lived the life of a monk, and + on account of his remarkable holiness, was ultimately made Bishop of Poitiers, in which + office he did his duty so as to gain the universal praise of the faithful. At that time the + Emperor Constantius was persecuting the Catholics by threats, by the plundering of their + goods, by exile, and at length, by every species of cruelty, in order to force them to + yield to the Arian heresy. Against the Arians Hilary set himself up as a brazen wall, and + turned upon himself the fierceness of their anger. They assailed him by many artifices, and + at last Saturnine, Bishop of Arles, at the Council of Beziers, procured his banishment to + Phrygia. During this exile he raised a dead man to life, and wrote a work in twelve books + on the Trinity, against the Arians. + + + In the fourth year of his exile took place the Council of Seleucia in Isauria, at which + Hilary was obliged to be present, but afterwards withdrew to Constantinople. Here he + realised more sharply the awful nature of this crisis in the history of Christianity, + published three pamphlets in the form of letters to the Emperor, and demanded from that + Prince leave to hold a public disputation in his presence. The Arian Bishops Ursacius and + Valens, whom Hilary had already confuted in writing, were afraid to meet him in debate, and + therefore induced Constantius, under pretence of pardon, to send him back to his Bishopric. + His mother, the Church of Gaul, to use the language of Jerome, received him with open arms + on his return from the battle with the heretics. He was followed to Poitiers by Martin, + afterwards Bishop of Tours, whose after holiness was a fruit of his teaching. + + + Henceforth he ruled the Church of Poitiers in great peace. By his exertions the Church of + Gaul was led to denounce the Arian blasphemy. His wonderful learning is seen in his + numerous works, of which Jerome writes to Laeta that he deemeth them quite faultless. One + can follow Hilary in his books, saith he, without tripping once. He passed from earth to + heaven upon the thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord 369, in the reign of the + Emperors Valentinian and Valens. He had already been called an illustrious Doctor of the + Church by many Fathers and Councils, and was so styled in the Liturgy in some Dioceses, + when at length Pope Pius IX., at the prayer of the Synod of Bordeaux, and in accordance + with a resolution of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, proclaimed and confirmed the title, + and commanded that the Mass and Office of his Feast should be everywhere said as those of a + Doctor. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-john-chrysostom.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-john-chrysostom.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7dbeaa --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-john-chrysostom.yml @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor, +# Doctor (Jan 27) — SanctiM/01-27.txt inherits the whole day +# (`@Sancti/01-27`) with no Nocturn 2/3 override, so this saint's own +# vita is sourced from the Tridentine track exactly as for a pre-1955 +# saint (see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints). +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-27.txt, English/Sancti/01-27.txt. +# Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita, no genuine +# source break. Lectio7-9 fall back to Common of a Doctor +# (`Commune/C4a`), not proper text, so not authored here. No responsory +# given in the source. +id: st-john-chrysostom +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Joánnes Antiochénus, propter áureum eloquéntiæ flumen cognoménto Chrysóstomus, a + forensibus et sæcularibus stúdiis ad divinas litteras summa cum ingenii et industriæ + laude se cóntulit. Itaque sacris initiátus ac presbyter Antiochenæ ecclésiæ factus, + mortuo Nectario, Arcadii imperatóris opera, invitus Constantinopolitanæ ecclésiæ + præfícitur. Quo suscepto pastorali munere, depravatos mores, et nobiliórum hóminum + vivéndi licéntiam vehementius objurgare cœpit: qua ex libertáte magnam multórum subiit + invidiam. Apud Eudoxiam etiam, quod eam propter Callítropæ víduæ pecúniam, et alterius + víduæ agrum reprehendísset, gráviter offendit. + + + Quare aliquot episcopórum acto Chalcédone convéntu, quo ipse vocátus ire nóluit, quod nec + legítimum concílium nec publicum esse diceret, niténte in primis ipsa contra Chrysóstomum + Eudoxia, ejícitur in exsílium: sed paulo post propter ejus desidérium seditióne pópuli + facta, admirábili civitátis plausu ab exsílio revocátur. Verum cum pérditos mores + increpare non desísteret, et ad argenteam Eudoxiæ státuam in foro sanctæ Sophíæ ludos + fíeri prohibéret; conspiratióne inimicórum episcopórum íterum exsulare cógitur, viduis et + egéntibus ómnibus communis parentis ejectiónem lugéntibus. In exsílio Chrysóstomus + incredibile est et quanta mala perpéssus sit, et quam multos ad Jesu Christi fidem + convérterit. + + + Verum dum, concílio Romæ hábito, decreto Innocentii primi Pontificis restitúitur, a + milítibus, qui eum custodiébant, miris in itinere malis et calamitátibus affícitur. + Cumque per Armeniam ducerétur, sanctus Basiliscus Martyr, in cujus templo antea oraverat, + noctu sic eum affátus est: Joánnes frater, crástinus dies nos loco conjunget. Quare + postridie sumpto Eucharistiæ sacraménto seque crucis signo muniens, ánimam Deo réddidit, + décimo octavo Kalendas Octobris. Quo mortuo, horribilis grando Constantinópoli cécidit, + et quatríduo Augusta cessit e vita. Ejus corpus insígni pompa et hóminum multitúdine + celebrátum, Theodosius Arcadii fílius Constantinópolim portándum, et honorifice + sepeliéndum curávit sexto Kalendas Februarii: cujus étiam relíquias veneratus, paréntum + suórum véniam pétiit: quod deínde Romam translátum in basilica Vaticana cónditum est. + Multitúdinem, pietátem, ac splendórem conciónum ceterorúmque ejus scriptórum, + interpretándi étiam ratiónem, et inhærentem senténtiæ sacrórum librórum explanatiónem + omnes admirántur; dignumque existimant, cui Paulus Apóstolus, quem ille mirifice coluit, + scribénti et prædicanti multa dictasse videátur. Hunc vero præclaríssimum univérsæ + Ecclésiæ Doctórem Pius décimus Pontifex maximus cælestem oratórum sacrórum patronum + declarávit atque constítuit. + en: >- + John of Antioch, who, on account of the golden stream of his eloquence, is called by the + Greeks Chrysostomos, or, the golden-mouthed, was a lawyer and man of the world of much + eminence, before he turned his great intellect and wonderful industry to the study of + things sacred. He took orders, and was ordained a priest of the Church of Antioch, and + after the death of Nectarius, was forced by the Emperor Arcadius to accept, though sorely + against his own will, the Archbishopric of Constantinople. Having received the burden of a + shepherd's office, he set himself zealously to do his duty, struggling against the + degradation of public morality and the loose lives of the nobility, and thereby drew upon + himself the ill-will of many enemies, especially the Empress Eudoxia, whom he had rebuked + on account of the money of the widow Callitropa, and the land of another widow. + + + Some Bishops being assembled in a Council at Chalcedon, which Council the Saint held to be + neither lawful, nor public, although he was commanded to go there, he refused. Whereupon + Eudoxia, striving earnestly against him, caused him to be sent into exile. Soon after, + however, the people of the city rose, and demanded his recall, and he was then brought back + again amid great public rejoicings. Nevertheless he ceased not to war against vice, and + absolutely forbade the celebration of public games round the silver statue of Eudoxia in + the square outside the Church of the Eternal Wisdom. Upon this, a party of Bishops, who + were enemies to him, banded together, and obtained that he should be banished again, which + was done accordingly, amid the lamentations of widows and the poor, who felt as if they + were being deprived of a common father. During this exile, it almost passeth belief how + much Chrysostom suffered, and how many souls he turned to the faith which is in Christ + Jesus. + + + At this time a Council was assembled at Rome, wherein Chrysostom's restoration to his See + was decreed by Pope Innocent I., but meanwhile, he was suffering great hardships and + cruelties on his journey at the hands of the soldiers who had him in charge. As he passed + through Armenia he prayed in the Church of the holy martyr Basiliscus, and the same night + that blessed conqueror appeared to him in a vision and said Brother John, to-morrow thou + shalt be with me. On the next day, therefore, he received the Sacrament of the Eucharist, + and, arming himself with the sign of the cross, resigned his soul to God. As soon as he was + dead a furious hailstorm took place at Constantinople, and after four days the Empress + died. The Emperor Theodosius, the son of Arcadius, brought the body of John Chrysostom to + Constantinople with great state, and numerously attended, and on the 27th of January, laid + it with magnificent honours in the grave, beside which he prayed for the forgiveness of his + own father and mother. The holy body was afterwards taken to Rome, and is now buried in the + Vatican Basilica. The number, devoutness, and brilliance of St. John Chrysostom's sermons + and other writings, his acuteness in exposition, and the close aptness of his explanations + of Holy Scripture, have been and are the object of universal wonder and admiration, and + often seem not unworthy to have been dictated to him by the Apostle Paul, for whom he + entertained a wonderful devotion. + status: { la: verified, en: verified } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-maurus-abbot.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-maurus-abbot.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c647c65 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-maurus-abbot.yml @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Matins Nocturn reading for St. Maurus, Abbot (Jan 15) — a genuine +# Monastic-only saint: no Sancti/01-15*.txt names him at all (that slot +# belongs to Ss. Marius/Martha/Audifax/Abachum and, off-date, St. Paul +# the Hermit — see memory vu-matins-pre1955-saints); his own proper +# vita exists only at web/www/horas/Latin/SanctiM/01-15t.txt. Lectio1-4 +# of that file fall back to Common of a Confessor (`CommuneM/C5`), not +# proper text; Lectio5-8 are St. Maurus's own vita, one continuous +# account (a disciple-of-Benedict biography), combined into a single +# reading, no genuine source break. +# No English/SanctiM/01-15t.txt exists in the reference engine at all +# (the English SanctiM tree only covers a subset of dates) — English +# text below is this project's own translation of the Latin, not a +# reference-engine translation, so marked draft rather than verified +# per vu-prefer-text-over-missing. No responsory given in the source. +id: st-maurus-abbot +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Maurus nobilis Romanus, puer a patre Eutychio Deo sub sancti Benedicti disciplína oblatus, + brevi tantum divina grátia profecit, ut ipsi magistro admiratióni esset; qui illum sæpe, + véluti regularis observantiæ et virtútum ómnium specimen, ceteris discípulis ad imitándum + proponebat. + + + Cujus adhuc adolescentis illud admirábilis obediéntiæ exemplum a sancto Gregório Papa + commemorátur. Nam, cum Placidus mónachus in lacum prolapsus, aquárum ímpetu raperétur, + sancti Patris jussu accurrens Maurus, et super aquas incédens, socium capíllis apprehénsum, + ad terram attraxit. + + + Continentiæ tantá fuit, ut per Quadragesimam bis tantum in hebdomada, et quidem + parcissime cibum sumeret. Somnum stando, vel cum nimia eum lassitudo compulísset, sedendo, + super aggéstum calcis et fabuli strato cilício capiébat. + + + Missus in Gálliam ab eodem sancto Benedicto, célebri monasterio exstructo, cui annos + quadragínta præfuit, monasticam disciplínam mirifice propagávit. Denique sanctitáte et + miraculis clarus, septuagenario major migrávit in cælum, anno salútis quingentésimo + sexagésimo quinto. + en: >- + Maurus, a Roman of noble birth, was offered to God as a boy by his father Eutychius, to be + formed under the discipline of St. Benedict. So swiftly did he advance by divine grace that + he became a wonder to his own master, who often held him up to the other disciples as a + model of regular observance and of every virtue, for them to imitate. + + + While Maurus was yet a youth, Pope St. Gregory records this instance of his admirable + obedience: when the monk Placid fell into a lake and was being swept away by the force of + the waters, Maurus, running at the command of the holy Father and walking upon the water, + caught his companion by the hair and drew him safe to land. + + + So great was his self-restraint that during Lent he took food only twice in the week, and + that most sparingly. For sleep, he either stood, or, when overcome by excessive weariness, + sat upon a heap of lime and rubble spread with a hair shirt. + + + Sent into Gaul by the same St. Benedict, he built a renowned monastery, over which he + presided for forty years, wonderfully spreading monastic discipline. At length, renowned + for holiness and miracles, he passed to heaven past the age of seventy, in the five hundred + and sixty-fifth year of salvation. + status: { la: verified, en: draft } diff --git a/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-prisca.yml b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-prisca.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1452e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/data/propers/nocturn-readings/st-prisca.yml @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Prisca, Virgin and Martyr (Jan 18, +# sharing the date with the Chair of St. Peter at Rome — see +# chair-of-st-peter-at-rome.yml). No SanctiM/01-18r*.txt at all (only +# the plain SanctiM/01-18.txt exists, and that one bases on Sancti/01-18, +# i.e. the Chair of St. Peter, not Prisca) — same "the shared plain +# file isn't necessarily yours" wrinkle as the pre-1955 pass (memory +# vu-matins-pre1955-saints); Prisca is in fact pre-1955-but-post-1617 +# too, just missed in that earlier pass's date-collision handling. +# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/01-18r.txt, English/Sancti/01-18r.txt. +# Single lesson (simplex-feast Lectio93), one continuous account, no +# responsory given in the source. +id: st-prisca +readings: + - nocturn: 2 + isGospel: false + text: + la: >- + Prisca, nobilis virgo Romana, trédecim annos nata, Cláudio imperatóre, christianæ fidei + accusata, ejusdem jussu ducta ad Apóllinis templum, ut idolis immolaret, cum rem + detestarétur, cólaphis cæsa, in carcerem traditur: atque inde emissa, cum in fidei + constántia perseveraret, affecta verbéribus, ferventíque ádipe delibuta, rursus in + carcerem includitur. Post triduum in amphitheatrum producta, leoni objícitur; qui suæ + feritátis oblítus, humíliter se ad ejus pedes abjecit. Quæ póstea in ergastulo triduum + inedia afflicta, in equuleo suspénditur, et ungulis férreis excarnificáta in rogum + injícitur, unde étiam mirabíliter evasit incólumis. Dénique extra Urbem cápite abscisso, + virginitátis palmam martyrii coróna cumulávit. Cujus corpus via Ostiénsi, décimo ab Urbe + milliário, a Christiánis décimo quinto Kalendas Februarii sepelítur. + en: >- + Prisca was a noble Roman maiden, who at thirteen years of age was accused of Christianity + before the Emperor Claudius. By his command she was taken to the temple of Apollo to + sacrifice there, and when she refused, was buffeted and sent to prison. She was taken out + from thence again, but as she still held steadfastly to the faith, they flogged her, poured + boiling tallow upon her, and sent her back a second time. She was at last thrown to a lion + in the amphitheatre, but it quietly lay down at her feet. She was starved for three days in + a slaves' prison house, and then tortured upon the rack. Pieces of flesh were next torn + from her body with iron hooks, and she was thrown on a burning pile. She marvellously still + remained alive, and was accordingly beheaded outside the city. Thus she added the crown of + martyrdom to the palm of virginity. The Christians buried her body at the tenth milestone + on the road from Rome to Ostia on the eighteenth of January. + status: { la: verified, en: verified }