Continues the full-year sanctoral import: St. Angela Merici, St. Francis Caracciolo, St. Boniface of Mainz (Bishop and Martyr, Apostle of Germany -- distinct from the earlier, unrelated St. Boniface Martyr already on May 14), St. Norbert, St. Margaret of Scotland, and St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Two of the new fixed dates (June 1, June 4) fall on dates used by two day-label tests pinned to specific Trinity Sunday years; moved those to years/dates free of the new entries, with explanatory comments. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-21.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
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# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio]
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# and own Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is St. John Chrysostom's own
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# homily on virginity, not a cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of his own
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# -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common
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# of a Confessor. Officium name also carries a monastic rubric variant
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# -- ignored per the untagged-block convention.
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id: st-aloysius-gonzaga
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name: "St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor"
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rank: duplex
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common: common-of-a-confessor
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propers: "st-aloysius-gonzaga"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-01.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
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# C6a" (Common of Virgins only). Own real proper [Oratio]. No [Ant 1]
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# of her own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to the
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# plain Common of a Virgin. No Lectio7-9 in her own file -- defers to
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# the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
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id: st-angela-merici
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name: "St. Angela Merici, Virgin"
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rank: duplex
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common: common-of-a-virgin
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propers: "st-angela-merici"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-05.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
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# C2" (Common of a Martyr Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio] and own
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# Nocturn 2-3 content (Nocturn 3 is St. Augustine's own homily, not a
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# cross-reference). No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/
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# minorHoursCommon fall back to the plain Common of a Martyr, matching
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# st-timothy.yml. Distinct saint/id from st-boniface.yml (May 14's "S.
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# Bonifatii Martyris" -- a different, earlier Boniface, Simplex,
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# Commune C2a) -- no collision. Officium name also carries monastic/
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# altovadensis rubric variants -- ignored per the untagged-block
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# convention.
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id: st-boniface-of-mainz
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name: "St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr"
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rank: duplex
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common: common-of-a-martyr-bishop
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propers: "st-boniface-of-mainz"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-martyr
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-martyr
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-04.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
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# C5" (Common of a Confessor Not a Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio].
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# No [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back
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# to the plain Common of a Confessor. No Lectio7-9 in his own file --
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# defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed here.
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id: st-francis-caracciolo
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name: "St. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor"
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rank: duplex
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common: common-of-a-confessor
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propers: "st-francis-caracciolo"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-10.txt` -- "Semiduplex;;2.2;;
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# vide C7a" (Commune non Virginum non Martyrum). Own real proper
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# [Oratio]. No [Ant 1] of her own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon
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# fall back to the Common of a Virgin, same C-number-family fallback
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# already established for st-monica.yml/st-frances-of-rome.yml (no
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# benedictus-antiphon-common-of-a-widow.yml exists). No Lectio7-9 in
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# her own file -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not
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# transcribed here.
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id: st-margaret-of-scotland
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name: "St. Margaret, Queen and Widow"
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rank: semiduplex
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common: common-of-a-widow
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propers: "st-margaret-of-scotland"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-virgin
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# Read directly from the reference engine: untagged/default [Rank]
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# block of `web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-06.txt` -- "Duplex;;3;;vide
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# C4" (Common of a Confessor Bishop). Own real proper [Oratio]. No
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# [Ant 1] of his own -- benedictusCommon/minorHoursCommon fall back to
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# the plain Common of a Confessor Bishop, matching st-ambrose.yml. No
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# Lectio7-9 in his own file -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3,
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# not transcribed here.
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id: st-norbert
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name: "St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor"
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rank: duplex
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common: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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propers: "st-norbert"
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benedictusCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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minorHoursCommon: common-of-a-confessor-bishop
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# (the 4th day of St. John the Baptist's octave) is a pure temporal
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# continuation with no named secondary saint, so it's excluded, same as
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# every other octave-continuation day this pull has skipped.
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"06-01": [st-angela-merici]
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"06-02": [ss-marcellinus-peter-and-erasmus]
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"06-04": [st-francis-caracciolo]
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"06-05": [st-boniface-of-mainz]
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"06-06": [st-norbert]
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"06-09": [ss-primus-and-felicianus]
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"06-10": [st-margaret-of-scotland]
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"06-11": [st-barnabas]
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"06-12": [ss-basilides-cyrinus-nabor-and-nazarius]
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"06-13": [st-anthony-of-padua]
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"06-18": [ss-mark-and-marcellian]
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"06-19": [ss-gervase-and-protase]
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"06-20": [st-silverius]
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"06-21": [st-aloysius-gonzaga]
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"06-22": [st-paulinus-of-nola]
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"06-23": [vigil-of-st-john-the-baptist]
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"06-24": [nativity-of-st-john-the-baptist]
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-aloysius-gonzaga-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Cæléstium donórum distribútor, Deus, qui in angélico júvene Aloísio miram vitæ
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innocéntiam pari cum pœniténtia sociásti: ejus méritis et précibus concéde; ut,
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innocéntem non secúti, pœniténtem imitémur.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, bestower of heavenly gifts, Who in the angelic youth Aloysius joined
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wondrous innocence of life to an equally wondrous love of penance; grant, by his
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merits and prayers, that we who have not followed him in his innocence may imitate
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him in his penance.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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la: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-01.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-angela-merici-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui novum per beátam Angelam sacrárum Vírginum collégium in Ecclésia tua
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floréscere voluísti: da nobis, ejus intercessióne, angélicis móribus vívere; ut,
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terrénis ómnibus abdicátis, gáudiis pérfrui mereámur ætérnis.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Whose will it hath been to use blessed Angela as a means whereby to make a new
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fellowship of virgins to grow and flourish in Thy Church, grant unto us, at her
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prayers, so angelically to live, that we may freely lay aside all earthly things, and
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worthily enter upon the enjoyment of those things which are eternal.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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la: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-05.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-boniface-of-mainz-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui multitúdinem populórum, beáti Bonifátii Mártyris tui atque Pontíficis
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zelo, ad agnitiónem tui nóminis vocáre dignátus es: concéde propítius; ut, cujus
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solémnia cólimus, étiam patrocínia sentiámus.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who, through the zeal of blessed Boniface, thy Martyr and Bishop, graciously
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called a multitude of people to the knowledge of thy Name, mercifully grant that we
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who keep his feast may also enjoy his patronage.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-04.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-francis-caracciolo-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátum Francíscum, novi órdinis institutórem, orándi stúdio et
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pœniténtiæ amóre decorásti: da fámulis tuis in ejus imitatióne ita profícere; ut,
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semper orántes et corpus in servitútem redigéntes, ad cæléstem glóriam perveníre
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mereántur.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who didst raise up thy blessed servant Francis to found a new Order in thy
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Church, and didst ennoble him through earnestness in prayer and love of penance,
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grant unto us after his example so to pray without ceasing and to bring our bodies
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into subjection, that, in the end, we, like him, may worthily attain unto thy
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heavenly glory.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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la: verified
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-10.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-margaret-of-scotland-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátam Margarítam regínam exímia in páuperes caritáte mirábilem
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effecísti: da; ut, ejus intercessióne et exémplo, tua in córdibus nostris cáritas
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júgiter augeátur.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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en: |
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who didst make Margaret, that blessed Queen, wonderful for tender love toward
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the poor, grant that her intercession and example may be effectual to gain for our
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hearts a thorough love toward thee.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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# Read directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-06.txt's own
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# [Oratio] and its English counterpart.
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id: st-norbert-collect
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text:
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la: |
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Orémus.
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Deus, qui beátum Norbértum Confessórem tuum atque Pontíficem verbi tui præcónem
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exímium effecísti, et per eum Ecclésiam tuam nova prole fecundásti: præsta,
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quǽsumus; ut, ejúsdem suffragántibus méritis, quod ore simul et ópere dócuit, te
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adjuvánte, exercére valeámus.
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Per Dóminum nostrum Jesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte
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Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
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℟. Amen.
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Let us pray.
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O God, Who made blessed Norbert, thy Confessor and Bishop, a brilliant preacher of
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thy word, and through him enriched thy Church with a new religious family, grant, we
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beseech thee, that by his prayerful intercession and thy help, we may be able to do
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what he has taught us by his words and deeds.
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Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the
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unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
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℟. Amen.
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la: verified
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# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor
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# (June 21). Sourced directly from
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# web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-21.txt, English/Sancti/06-21.txt.
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# Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one continuous vita.
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# Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends "Et réliqua"/"And so on"
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# with no full pericope given -- per the bare-incipit convention, only
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# the homily (Lectio7-9, St. John Chrysostom on virginity) is
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# authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
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id: st-aloysius-gonzaga
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readings:
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- nocturn: 2
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isGospel: false
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text:
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la: >-
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Aloisius, Ferdinandi Gonzagæ Castellionis Stiverorum marchionis filius,
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festinato propter vitæ periculum baptismo, prius cælo quam terris nasci visus,
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primam illam gratiam tam constanter retinuit, ut in ea confirmatus crederetur.
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A primo rationis usu, quo se Deo statim obtulit, vitam duxit quotidie
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sanctiorem. Novennis Florentiæ ante aram beatæ Virginis, quam parentis loco
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semper habuit, perpetuam virginitatem vovit: eamque, insigni Dei beneficio,
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nulla mentis aut corporis pugna tentatam servavit. Reliquas animi
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perturbationes cœpit ætate illa tam fortiter comprimere, ut ne primo quidem
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earum motu deínde incitaretur. Sensus etiam, oculos præcipue, ita cohibuit, ut
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non modo illos numquam in faciem intenderit Mariæ Austriacæ, quam plures annos
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inter honorarios Hispaniarum principis ephebos fere quotidie salutavit; sed a
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matris étiam vultu contineret: homo propterea sine carne, aut angelus in carne
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merito appellatus.
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Adjecit sensuum custodiæ corporis cruciatum. Tria singulis hebdomadis jejunia,
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eaque plerumque modico pane et aqua tolerabat, quamquam perpetuum fuísse per id
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tempus ipsius jejunium videri potest, cum ejus prandia ferme vix unciam
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æquarent. Sæpe étiam ter in die se funibus aut catenis cruentabat: flagella
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quandoque canum loris, cilicia equorum calcaribus supplevit. Mollem lectulum
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clam injectis asserum fragmentis asperabat, eo étiam ut citius ad orandum
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excitaretur, magnam quippe noctis partem, summa étiam hieme, solo tectus
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indusio, positis humi genibus, vel præ languore jacens ac pronus, in
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cælestium contemplatione traducebat. Interdiu quoque tres, quatuor, quinque
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horas in ea perstabat immotus, donec unam saltem animo nusquam distracto
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percurrisset. Cujus constantiæ præmium fuit stabilitas mentis inter orandum
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alio non vagantis, immo perpetua velut extasi in Deo defixæ. Ei demum ut
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unice adhæreret, victo post triennale acerrimum certamen patre, et aviti
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principatus jure in fratrem translato, societati Jesu, ad quam cælesti voce
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Matriti fuerat accitus, Romæ se adjunxit.
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In tirocinio ipso virtutum omnium magister haberi cœpit, Exactissima in eo
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erat legum étiam minimarum custodia, mundi contemptus singularis, implacabile
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odium sui, Dei vero amor tam ardens, ut corpus étiam sensim absumeret, Jussus
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propterea mentem a divinis rebus tantisper avertere, occurrentem sibi ubique
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Deum irrito conatu fugiebat. Mira étiam proximos caritate amplexus, in
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publicis, quibus alacriter ministrabat, nosocomiis, contagiosam luem traxit,
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Qua lente consumptus, die quem prædixerat, undecimo Kalendas Julii, ætatis
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anno quarto et vigesimo jam inchoato, cum antea flagellis cædi, atque humi
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stratus mori postulasset, migravit in cælum, Ibi eum sancta Maria Magdalena
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de Pazzis tanta frui gloria, Deo monstrante, vidit, quantam vix esse in cælo
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credidisset; ipsumque sanctimonia insignem, et caritate Martyrem incognitum
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fuísse prædicavit, Multis étiam magnisque claruit miraculis, Quibus rite
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probatis, Benedictus decimus tertius Sanctorum fastis angelicum juvenum
|
||||
adscripsit, atque innocentiæ et castitatis exemplar simul et patronum
|
||||
studiosæ præsertim juventuti dedit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Aloysius, eldest son of Ferdinand Gonzaga, Marquess of Castiglione, was so
|
||||
hurriedly baptized on account of danger that he seemed to be born to heaven
|
||||
almost before he was born to earth, and he so faithfully kept that his first
|
||||
grace that he seemed to have been confirmed therein. From his first use of
|
||||
reason, which he employed to offer himself to God, he led a life more holy day
|
||||
by day. At Florence, when he was nine years old, he made a vow of perpetual
|
||||
virginity before the Altar of the Blessed Virgin, upon whom he always looked
|
||||
as in the place of a mother to him, and by a remarkable mercy from God, he
|
||||
kept this vow wholly and without the slightest impure temptation, either of
|
||||
mind or body, during his whole life. As for any other uprisings of the soul,
|
||||
he began at that age to check them so sternly, that he was never more pricked
|
||||
by even their earliest movements. His senses, and especially his eye-sight, he
|
||||
so mortified, that he never once looked upon the face of Mary of Austria,
|
||||
whom, when he was for several years one of the Pages of honour of the King of
|
||||
Spain, he saluted almost every day; and he even denied himself in part the
|
||||
pleasure of looking on the face of his own mother. He might indeed have been
|
||||
justly called a fleshless man, or an infleshed angel.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
With this fettering of the senses he added torture of the body. He kept three
|
||||
days as fasts in every week, and that mostly upon a little bread and water.
|
||||
But indeed he as it were fasted every day, for he hardly ever took so much as
|
||||
an ounce weight of food at breakfast. Often also, even thrice in one day, he
|
||||
would lash himself to flowing of blood with cords, or prick himself with
|
||||
spiked chains. He sometimes used a dog-whip, instead of a scourge, and the
|
||||
rowels of spurs instead of hair-cloth. He privately filled his soft bed with
|
||||
pieces of broken plates, that he might find it easier to wake to pray. He
|
||||
passed great part of the night, clad only in a shirt even in the depth of
|
||||
winter, kneeling on the ground, or lying flat on his face when too weak and
|
||||
weary to remain upright, busied with heavenly thoughts. Sometimes he would
|
||||
keep himself thus for three, four, or five hours, until he had spent at least
|
||||
one without any movement of body or any wandering of mind. Such perseverance
|
||||
obtained for him the reward of being able to keep his understanding quite
|
||||
concentrated in prayer without distraction, as though rapt in God in an
|
||||
unbroken extasy. Desiring to give himself up to Him alone, he overcame, after
|
||||
a strong opposition for three years, the objections of his father, procured
|
||||
the transfer to his brother of his right to the Marquessate, and joined at
|
||||
Rome the Society of Jesus, to which he had been called by a voice from heaven
|
||||
when he was at Madrid.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In his very Noviciate he began to be held a master of all godliness. His
|
||||
obedience to even the most trifling rules was absolutely exact, his
|
||||
indifference to the world extraordinary, and his hatred of self implacable.
|
||||
His love of God was so keen that it gradually undermined his bodily strength.
|
||||
Being commanded to give his mind some rest from thinking unceasingly of God,
|
||||
he struggled vainly to distract himself from Him Who met him everywhere. From
|
||||
tender love toward his neighbour, he joyfully ministered to the sick in the
|
||||
public hospitals, and in the exercise of this charity he caught a deadly
|
||||
disease. This sickness slowly wore him away, and soon after he had entered on
|
||||
the 24th year of his age, upon a day which he had himself foretold, after
|
||||
entreating that he might be scourged, and laid upon the ground to die, he
|
||||
passed away to heaven. What the glory is which he there enjoyeth holy Mary
|
||||
Magdalen de' Pazzi was enabled, by the revelation of God, to behold, and she
|
||||
declared that it was such as she had hardly believed existed even in heaven,
|
||||
and that his holiness and love were so great that she should call him an
|
||||
unknown martyr of charity. On earth God glorified him by many great miracles.
|
||||
These being duly proved, Benedict XIII inserted the name of this angel lad in
|
||||
the Kalendar of the Saints, and commended him to all young scholars both as a
|
||||
pattern of innocency and purity, and as a patron.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. John Chrysostom, Book on Virginity"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Virginitas est bona: id ego quoque fateor. Atqui nuptiis étiam melior et
|
||||
istud tibi assentior: ac si libet, illud adjungam, tanto nuptiis eam
|
||||
præstare, quanto cælum terræ, quanto hominibus Angeli antecellunt: ac, si
|
||||
quid præterea addendum est, étiam magis. Nam si neque nubunt Angeli, neque
|
||||
uxorem ducunt, non étiam carne et sanguine coagmentati sunt: in terris
|
||||
præterea non commorantur, non cupiditatum aut libidinum perturbationibus
|
||||
sunt obnoxii; non cibi indigent, aut potus; non sunt ejusmodi, ut eos dulcis
|
||||
sonus, aut cantus mollis, aut præclara species possit allicere; nulla
|
||||
denique ejus generis illecebra capiuntur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
At humánum genus cum natura beatis illis mentibus inferius sit, omni vi
|
||||
studioque contendit, ut, quoad ejus fieri potest, illas assequatur. Quomodo?
|
||||
Non nubunt Angeli: at neque étiam virgo. Assistentes illi semper ad Deum,
|
||||
eidem inserviunt; et istud ipsum virgo. Quod si virgines, quamdiu corporis
|
||||
onere deprimuntur, quemadmodum Angeli in cælum nequeunt ascendere, illud eo
|
||||
vel maximo solatio compensant, quod modo spiritu et corpore sancti sint,
|
||||
cæli Regem recipiunt. Videsne virginitatis præstantiam? quomodo terrarum
|
||||
incolas sic afficiat, ut qui corpore vestiti sunt, eos incorporeis mentibus
|
||||
exæquet?
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Qua enim, quæso, re differebant ab Angelis Elias, Eliseus, Joannes, veri hi
|
||||
virginitatis amatores? Nulla, nisi quod mortali natura constabant. Nam
|
||||
cetera si quis diligenter inquirat, hi nihilo minus affecti reperientur,
|
||||
quam beatæ illæ mentes: et idipsum quo inferiore conditione videntur esse,
|
||||
in magna est eorum laude ponendum. Ut enim terrarum incolæ, et ii qui essent
|
||||
mortali natura, possent ad illam virtutem vi et contentione pervenire; vide
|
||||
quanta eos fortitudine, quanta vitæ ratione præditos fuísse oporteat.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This I say, that virginity is good. And in this I agree likewise, that it is
|
||||
better than marriage. And I will even add, that it is as much more excellent
|
||||
than marriage, as heaven is more noble than earth, or Angels than men, and
|
||||
indeed, if I must say more, even more so. For if Angels neither marry nor are
|
||||
given in marriage, at least, they are not creatures of flesh and blood, they
|
||||
dwell not upon earth, they are exposed to no restless troublings of desire or
|
||||
lust, they need neither meat nor drink, they are not such that sweet sound, or
|
||||
soft song, or the delight of beauty can charm them; there is nothing of this
|
||||
sort to take hold on them and draw them away.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Yet the human nature which striveth its utmost to follow them, is not so
|
||||
exalted as that of these blessed intelligences. How? Angels marry not nor are
|
||||
given in marriage; neither doth a virgin. Angels stand ever before God, and
|
||||
serve Him; and so doth a virgin. But if a virgin, still weighed down with this
|
||||
body, and unable, like the Angels, to ascend to heaven, doth make it his one
|
||||
great comfort here to be holy in body and in spirit, and to open his heart for
|
||||
a home for the King of heaven; dost thou not see wherein a virgin is higher
|
||||
than an Angel? The excellence of virginity in men over virginity in Angels
|
||||
lieth in this, that it maketh them which are yet earth-dwellers and
|
||||
body-burdened equal to intelligences unshackled by bodies.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In what respect, I ask, differed Elijah, Elisha, and John, those great lovers
|
||||
of virginity, from Angels? In nothing, except that their faithfulness was
|
||||
exercised in a dying body. For the rest, if we look carefully, their minds
|
||||
were no otherwise than those of the blessed spirits, and their crown of glory
|
||||
is this: that they attained the same honour under conditions less favourable.
|
||||
For consider of what manliness, of what superiority of reason over feeling
|
||||
they must have been possessed, to enable them bravely to fight their way,
|
||||
earth-dwellers and dying creatures as they were, to the bright summit of
|
||||
grace which was theirs.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Angela Merici, Virgin (June 1).
|
||||
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-01.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/06-01.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is `vide
|
||||
# C6a`) -- defers to the Common of a Virgin's own Nocturn 3, not
|
||||
# transcribed here.
|
||||
id: st-angela-merici
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Angela Merícia, Decentiáni, Veronénsis diœcésis óppido ad lacum Benácum in
|
||||
dicióne Venéta, piis orta paréntibus, a prima ætáte virginitátis lílium, quod
|
||||
perpétuo serváre statúerat, sédula sepsit. Ab omni mulíebri ornátu abhórrens,
|
||||
egrégiam vultus formam pulchrámque cæsáriem studióse fœdávit, ut cælésti
|
||||
dumtáxat animárum Sponso placéret. In ipso autem adolescéntiæ flore paréntibus
|
||||
orbáta, austerióris vitæ desidério in desértum locum aufúgere tentávit; sed, ab
|
||||
avúnculo prohíbita, novit præstáre domi, quod in solitúdine non lícuit. Cilício
|
||||
ac flagéllis frequénter usa, carnem nónnisi infírma valetúdine, vinum in
|
||||
Nativitátis et Resurrectiónis Domínicæ tantum celebritáte; complúres vero dies,
|
||||
nihil omníno degustávit. Oratióni dédita, brevíssimum humi carpébat somnum.
|
||||
Dæmónem vero sub lucéntis ángeli forma sibi illúdere conántem agnóvit prótinus,
|
||||
et conjécit in fugam. Tandem patérnis bonis abdicátis, et hábitum ac régulam
|
||||
tértii órdinis sancti Francísci ampléxa, evangélicam paupertátem virginitátis
|
||||
laudi conjúnxit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Nullum pietátis offícium erga próximos omíttens, paupéribus, quidquid sibi ex
|
||||
mendicáto victu superésset, largiebátur; libénter ministrábat ægrótis, plúraque
|
||||
cum magna sanctitátis fama peragrávit loca, ut vel solátio esset afflíctis, vel
|
||||
reis véniam impetráret, vel infénsos ínvicem reconciliáret ánimos, vel e
|
||||
vitiórum cœno sceléstos revocáret. Angelórum pane, quem únice esuriébat,
|
||||
frequentíssime refécta, tanta caritátis vi ferebátur in Deum, ut sæpius extra
|
||||
sensus raperétur. Sacra Palæstínæ loca, summa cum religióne, obívit; quo in
|
||||
itínere et visum, quem ad Cydónias appúlsa oras amíserat, eódem regréssa
|
||||
recuperávit, et barbarórum captivitátem ac naufrágium ímminens divínitus
|
||||
evásit. Romam dénique, firmam Ecclésiæ petram veneratúra et amplíssimæ jubilæi
|
||||
véniæ percúpida, sedénte Cleménte séptimo, accéssit; quam summus Póntifex
|
||||
allocútus, ejúsdem sanctimóniam suspéxit et commendávit summópere; nec ab Urbe
|
||||
ipsam abíre ante permísit, quam álio cælitus vocátam agnóvit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Bríxiam ítaque, ubi domum ad sanctæ Afræ templum condúxit, revérsa, novam ibi
|
||||
vírginum societátem, sicut cælésti voce ac visióne mandátum sibi fúerat, sub
|
||||
certa disciplína sanctísque vivéndi régulis constítuit, quam sanctæ Ursulæ
|
||||
invíctæ vírginum ducis patrocínio ac nómine insignívit: eam vero perénnem
|
||||
futúram morti próxima prædíxit. Tandem prope septuagenária, dives méritis
|
||||
evolávit in cælum sexto Kaléndas Februárii anni millésimi quingentésimi et
|
||||
quadragésimi. Cujus cadáver per ipsos trigínta dies inhumátum, flexíbile ac vivo
|
||||
simíllimum perseverávit. Demum in sanctæ Afræ templo inter céteras, quibus illud
|
||||
abúndat, Sanctórum relíquias repósito, plúrima ad ejus sepúlcrum agi statim
|
||||
cœpére mirácula; quorum fama late diffúsa, non Bríxiæ modo et Decentiáni, sed
|
||||
álibi étiam vulgo cœpit nuncupári beáta, ejúsque imágo aris impóni: immo sanctus
|
||||
ipse Cárolus Borromæus non multis post annis dignam, quæ ab apostólica Sede in
|
||||
sanctárum Vírginum album referrétur, Bríxiæ palam asséruit. Cultum vero illi
|
||||
jámdiu a pópulis exhíbitum, et et tum locórum Ordináriis probátum, tum plúribus
|
||||
étiam summórum Pontíficum indúltis munítum, Clemens Papa décimus tértius
|
||||
solémni decréto ratum hábuit ac confirmávit. Eam tandem, novis miráculis rite
|
||||
probátis insígnem, Pius Papa séptimus, solémni canonizatióne in Vaticána
|
||||
basílica perácta, die vigésima quarta Maji anno millésimo octingentésimo
|
||||
séptimo, sanctárum Vírginum catálogo adscrípsit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Angela Merici was born of godly parents at Decenzano on the western shore of the
|
||||
Lake of Garda, in the diocese of Verona and territory of Venice. From her
|
||||
earliest years she carefully guarded the lily of her virginity, with the
|
||||
intention of keeping it for ever unbroken. She had no taste for women's finery,
|
||||
and purposely marred the exceeding comeliness of her body and her sightly hair,
|
||||
as seeking to appear beautiful only in the eyes of Him Who is the Lover of
|
||||
souls. At ten years of age she lost both her father and mother, and thereafter,
|
||||
being fain to take upon her a life of greater hardness, she essayed to retire
|
||||
into a desert place apart, but this her uncle forbade her to do, and she learnt
|
||||
how to practice at home what she was not allowed to attempt in the wilderness.
|
||||
She often used hair-cloth and scourging; never ate flesh-meat, except when she
|
||||
was sick; drank wine only on the Feast-days of Christmas and Easter; and many a
|
||||
day took nothing at all. She was instant in prayer. What little sleep she took,
|
||||
she took lying on the ground. The devil strove to beguile her, appearing under
|
||||
the form of an angel of light, but she quickly detected him and put him to
|
||||
flight. At length she added to the glory of virginity that poverty which is
|
||||
commended in the Gospel; she gave up all that she had, and adopted the dress and
|
||||
rule of the Third Order of St. Francis.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
She left undone no service of kindness which she was able to do to her
|
||||
neighbors. If there remained anything over of the food which was given in alms
|
||||
to herself, she gave that to the poor. She cheerfully waited upon the sick. She
|
||||
journeyed about, with a great reputation for holiness, comforting the afflicted,
|
||||
asking forgiveness for the guilty, reconciling the angry, and recalling the
|
||||
wicked from evil. Her only hunger was for the bread of Angels, and she took the
|
||||
Same right often, and then arose in her vehemence of love bearing her towards
|
||||
God, which oftentimes made her beside herself. She made a pilgrimage, with
|
||||
intense feeling, to the Holy Places in Palestine, during which journey she lost
|
||||
her sight at Canea in Crete on her way out, and recovered it at the same place
|
||||
on her way home. In this journey also, God saved her from being made prisoner by
|
||||
the unbelievers and from shipwreck. She went to Rome at once to pray at the
|
||||
immovable Rock of the Church, and to gain the abundant pardons of the Jubilee.
|
||||
Pope Clement VII conversed with her, was edified by her holiness, and highly
|
||||
commended her; neither would he let her leave Rome, until he knew that God was
|
||||
calling her elsewhere.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
She went back to Brescia, and there hired an house near the Church of St. Afra,
|
||||
in which house, in obedience to a vision and command from heaven, she founded a
|
||||
new Order of religious women, constituted under certain rules and holy
|
||||
regulations of life. This Order she put under the name and patronage of St.
|
||||
Ursula, the fearless leader of maidens. When Angela was near to death, she
|
||||
foretold that this Order will never cease. She was well-nigh three score and ten
|
||||
years of age, and full of good works, when she winged her flight heavenward. Her
|
||||
dead body lay unburied thirty days, supple and life-like. It was laid at last in
|
||||
the Church of St. Afra, where sleep so many more of God's holy children. Diverse
|
||||
miracles forthwith began to be worked at her grave. The fame of these being
|
||||
noised about, she began to be commonly called Blessed, and that not only at
|
||||
Brescia and Decenzano; and pictures of her were put over Altars. Not many years
|
||||
afterward, holy Charles Borromeo said openly at Brescia, that she was one whose
|
||||
name the Apostolic See might well enroll among those of holy virgins. The
|
||||
reverence which had of a long time been shown to her memory was approved by the
|
||||
local Ordinaries, confirmed by diverse Papal Indults, and solemnly ratified and
|
||||
established by decree of Pope Clement XIII. As she continued famous for new and
|
||||
proved miracles, Pope Pius VII, at the solemn canonization held in the Vatican
|
||||
Basilica, added her name to the list of holy maids.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2-3 readings for St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
|
||||
# (June 5). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-05.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/06-05.txt. Nocturn 2: Lectio4-6 combined into one
|
||||
# reading, one continuous vita. Nocturn 3: his own Gospel citation ends
|
||||
# "Et réliqua"/"And so on" with no full pericope given -- per the
|
||||
# bare-incipit convention, only the homily (Lectio7-9, St. Augustine of
|
||||
# Hippo) is authored, isGospel: false, no citation field.
|
||||
id: st-boniface-of-mainz
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Bonifátius, ántea Winfrídus appellátus, apud Anglos natus est exeúnte sæculo
|
||||
séptimo, et ab ipsa infántia mundum aversátus, vitam monásticam in votis
|
||||
hábuit. Cum ejus pater ánimum sæculi illécebris permutáre frustra tentásset,
|
||||
monastérium ingréditu, et sub beáti Wolphárdi disciplína ómnium virtútum ac
|
||||
scientiárum génere imbúitur. Annum agens trigésimum sacerdótio insignítur, ac
|
||||
verbi divíni prædicátor assíduus, magno animárum lucro hoc in múnere versátur.
|
||||
Attamen, regnum Christi adaugére desíderans, contínuo flebat ingéntem
|
||||
multitúdinem barbarórum, qui ignorántiæ ténebris immérsi dæmoni famulabántur.
|
||||
Qui quidem animárum zelus cum in dies inexstinguíbili ardóre accrésceret,
|
||||
divíno númine per lácrimas et oratiónes exploráto, facultátem a monastérii
|
||||
præpósito obtínuit ad Germánicas oras proficiscéndi.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ex Anglia duóbus cum sóciis navem solvens, Dorestádium in Frísiæ óppidum venit.
|
||||
Cum autem bellum gravíssimum inter Frísonum regem Radbódum et Cárolum
|
||||
Martéllum exarsísset, sine fructu Evangélium prædicávit. Quaprópter in Angliam
|
||||
revérsus, ad suum redívit monastérium, cui invítus præfícitur. Post elápsum
|
||||
biénnium, ex consénsu epíscopi Vintoniénsis, munus abdicávit, et Romam
|
||||
proféctus est, ut apostólica auctoritáte ad Gentílium conversiónem
|
||||
delegarétur. Cum ad Urbem pervenísset, a Gregório secúndo benígne excípitur,
|
||||
pro Winfrído Bonifátius a Pontífice nominátur. In Germániam diréctus,
|
||||
Thuríngiæ Saxoniæque pópulis Christum annuntiávit. Cum intérea Radbódus,
|
||||
Frísiæ rex ac infestíssimus christiáni nóminis hostis, occubuísset, Bonifátius
|
||||
ad Frísones rédiit, ubi sancti Willibrórdi sócius per triénnium tanto cum
|
||||
fructu Evangélium prædicávit, ut, destrúctis idolórum simulácris, innúmeræ vero
|
||||
Deo ecclésiæ excitaréntur.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
A sancto Willibrórdo ad episcopále munus expetítus, illud detrectávit ut
|
||||
prómpius infidélium salúti instáret. In Germániam proféctus, plura Hassórum
|
||||
míllia a dæmonis superstitióne avocávit. A Gregório Pontífice Romam evocátus,
|
||||
post insígnem fídei professiónem epíscopus consecrátur. Exínde ad Germános
|
||||
redux, Hássiam et Thuríngiam ab idololatríæ relíquiis pénitus expurgávit.
|
||||
Tanta propter mérita Bonifátius a Gregório tértio ad dignitátem
|
||||
archiepiscopálem evéhitur, et tértio Romam proféctus a summo Pontífice Sedis
|
||||
apostólicæ legátus constitúitur. Qua insignítus auctoritáte quátuor
|
||||
episcopátus instítuit, et várias synodos celebrávit, inter quas concílium
|
||||
Leptinénse memorábile est, apud Belgas in Cameracénsi diœcési celebrátum, quo
|
||||
quidem témpore ad fidem in Bélgio adaugéndam egrégie cóntulit. A Zacharía Papa
|
||||
creátus Mogúntius archiepíscopus, ipso Pontífice jubénte, Pipínum in regem
|
||||
Francórum unxit. Post mortem sancti Willibrórdi Ultrajecténsem ecclésiam
|
||||
gubernándum suscépit, primo per Eóbanum, deínde per seípsum, dum ab ecclésia
|
||||
Moguntína absolútus Ultrajécti resédit. Frisónibus ad idololatríam relápsis,
|
||||
Evangélium prædicáre rursus aggréditur, cumque offício pastoráli occuparétur, a
|
||||
bárbaris et ímpiis homínibus juxta Bornam flúvium cum Eóbano coëpíscopo
|
||||
multísque áliis cruénta cæde perémptus martyrii palma condecorátur. Corpus
|
||||
sancti Bonifátii Mogúntiam translátum, et, ut ipse vivens petíerat, in
|
||||
Fuldénsi monastério, quod exstrúxerat, recónditum fuit, ubi multis miráculis
|
||||
incláruit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Winfried, afterwards called Boniface, was an Englishman, and born in England,
|
||||
towards the end of the seventh century. From his very childhood, he turned away
|
||||
from the world, and set his heart upon becoming a monk. His father tried in vain
|
||||
to turn him from his wishes by the beguilements of the world, and he entered a
|
||||
Monastery, where the Blessed Wolphard instructed him in all godliness and
|
||||
diverse kinds of learning. At the age of twenty-nine years he was ordained
|
||||
Priest, and became an unwearied preacher of the Word of God, wherein he had a
|
||||
gift which he used with great gain of souls. Nevertheless, his great desire was
|
||||
to spread the kingdom of Christ, and he continually bewailed the vast number of
|
||||
savages who were plunged in the darkness of ignorance and were the servants of
|
||||
the devil. This zealous love of souls increased in him in intensity day by day,
|
||||
till nothing would serve him, but, having implored the blessing of God by tears
|
||||
and prayers, and obtained authority from the head of his monastery, to set forth
|
||||
for the coast of Germany.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
He set sail from England with two companions and reached the town of Dorestadt
|
||||
in Friesland. A great war being then raging between Radbod, King of the
|
||||
Frieslanders, and Charles Martel, Winfrid preached the Gospel in vain. He went
|
||||
back to England, and betook himself again to his Monastery, whereof he was,
|
||||
against his own will, chosen to be the head. After two years he obtained the
|
||||
consent of the Bishop of Winchester to resign his office, and went to Rome, to
|
||||
seek an Apostolic commission to preach to the heathen. When he arrived at the
|
||||
city he was courteously welcomed by Gregory II., who changed his name from
|
||||
Winfrid to Boniface. He departed thence to Germany, and preached Christ to the
|
||||
tribes in Thuringia and Saxony. Radbod, King of Friesland, who bitterly hated
|
||||
the Christian name, being dead, Boniface went a second time among the
|
||||
Frieslanders, and there, with his comrade St. Willibrord, preached the Gospel
|
||||
for three years with so much fruit, that the idols were hewn down, and
|
||||
countless churches arose to the true God.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Willibrord urged upon him to take the office of a Bishop, but he deferred to
|
||||
seek it, that he might the more instantly toil for the salvation of the
|
||||
unbelievers. Advancing into Germany, he reclaimed thousands of the Hessians
|
||||
from devil-worship. Pope Gregory sent for him to Rome, and after hearing a noble
|
||||
profession of his faith, consecrated him a Bishop. He again returned to
|
||||
Germany, and thoroughly purged Hesse and Thuringia from all remains of idolatry.
|
||||
On account of such great works Gregory III. advanced Boniface to the dignity
|
||||
of an Archbishop, and on the occasion of a third journey to Rome, he was
|
||||
invested by the Sovereign Pontiff with the powers of Legate of the Apostolic
|
||||
See. As such, he founded four Bishoprics, and held diverse Synods, among which
|
||||
is especially to be remembered that of Lessines, held in Belgium, in the
|
||||
diocese of Cambrai, wherein he made his strongest endeavours to spread the
|
||||
Faith among the Belgians. By Pope Zacharias, he was named Archbishop of
|
||||
Maintz, and by command of the same Pope, he anointed Pepin to be King of the
|
||||
Franks. After the death of St. Willibrord, he undertook the government of the
|
||||
Church of Utrecht, at first through Eoban but he afterwards was released from
|
||||
the care of the Church of Maintz and established his see at Utrecht. The
|
||||
Frieslanders having again fallen back into idolatry, he once more betook
|
||||
himself to preach the Gospel among them, and while he was busied in this duty,
|
||||
he grasped the crown of martyrdom, being murdered by some ungodly savages,
|
||||
along with his fellow-Bishop Eoban, and many others, in a bloody massacre near
|
||||
the River Born. In accordance with the wish expressed by himself during life
|
||||
the body of St. Boniface was carried to Maintz, and buried in the monastery of
|
||||
Fulda, of which he had been the founder, and where God has gloriously honoured
|
||||
it by the working of many signs and wonders.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
|
||||
- nocturn: 3
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
source: "St. Augustine of Hippo, Book I on the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, ch. 2-3"
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Beáti mundo corde; quóniam ipsi Deum vidébunt. Quam ergo stulti sunt, qui Deum
|
||||
istis exterióribus óculis quærunt, cum corde videátur, sicut álibi scriptum
|
||||
est: Et in simplicitáte cordis quærite illum. Hoc est enim mundum cor, quod est
|
||||
simplex cor. Et quemádmodum lumen hoc vidéri non potest, nisi óculis mundis;
|
||||
ita nec Deus vidétur, nisi mundum sit illud quo vidéri potest. Beáti pacífici;
|
||||
quóniam ipsi fílii Dei vocabúntur. In pace perféctio est, ubi nihil repúgnat;
|
||||
et ídeo fílii Dei pacífici, quóniam nihil in his resístit Deo, et útique fílii
|
||||
similitúdinem patris habére debent.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Pacífici autem in semetípsis sunt, qui omnes ánimi sui motus componéntes, et
|
||||
subjiciéntes ratióni, id est menti et spirítui, carnalésque concupiscéntias
|
||||
habéntes edómitas, fiunt regnum Dei. In quo ita sunt ordináta ómnia, ut id
|
||||
quod est in hómine præcípuum et excéllens, hoc ímperet, céteris non
|
||||
reluctántibus, quæ sunt nobis bestiísque commúnia; atque idípsum quod
|
||||
excélluit in hómine, id est mens et rátio, subjiciátur potióri, quod est ipsa
|
||||
véritas, unigénitus Fílius Dei. Neque enim imperáre inferióribus potest, nisi
|
||||
superióri se ipse subjíciat. Et hæc est pax, quæ datur in terra homínibus
|
||||
bonæ voluntátis; hæc vita consummáti perfectíque sapiéntis.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
De hujúsmodi regno pacatíssimo et ordinatíssimo missus est foras princeps
|
||||
hujus sæculi, qui pervérsis inordinatísque dominátur. Hac pace intrínsecus
|
||||
constitúta atque firmáta, quascúmque persecutiónes ille, qui foras missus est,
|
||||
forínsecus concitáverit, auget glóriam, quæ secúndum Deum est; non áliquid in
|
||||
illo ædifício labefáctans, sed deficiéntibus máchinis suis innotéscere fáciens,
|
||||
quanta fírmitas intus exstrúcta sit. Ideo séquitur: Beáti, qui persecutiónem
|
||||
patiúntur propter justítiam; quóniam ipsórum est regnum cælórum.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. What fools then be they
|
||||
that seek God with their outward eyes, since it is in the heart that He is
|
||||
seen, as it is written elsewhere: In simplicity of heart seek Him. A simple
|
||||
heart is a pure heart. And even as we cannot see this earthly light, unless the
|
||||
eyes be open, so cannot God be seen, unless that be open which alone can
|
||||
perceive Him. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
|
||||
children of God. The perfection of peace is the absence of contrariety, and the
|
||||
peacemakers are called the children of God because they offer no contrariety
|
||||
against the will of God. As beseemeth children, they have their Father's
|
||||
likeness.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
They are peacemakers in themselves, who order all the movements of their own
|
||||
mind in obedience to reason, that is, to their intellect and soul, and so
|
||||
doing, and taming the lusts of the flesh, become a kingdom for God. In such
|
||||
kingdom all things are so ordered, that the chiefest and noblest part of man
|
||||
ruleth without contention over those lower things which we have in common with
|
||||
beasts. And just in the same way, must that nobler part of man, that is to say,
|
||||
intellect and reason, needs be put in subjection to what is above it, namely,
|
||||
Truth, the Only begotten Son of God. He only can rule well who hath learnt to
|
||||
obey. And this ordering is that peace which is given on earth to men of good
|
||||
will; this is the life of whomsoever is thoroughly and perfectly wise.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
From this most peaceful and most orderly kingdom is cast forth the prince of
|
||||
this world, whose rule is over the contentious and disorderly. When once this
|
||||
peace hath been proclaimed and established within, whatsoever wars he that is
|
||||
without can raise, can but heap more glory upon that glory which is according
|
||||
to God, for nothing of the castle will yield before him, but the yielding of
|
||||
his own engines will witness how strong be its ramparts. And therefore cometh
|
||||
next: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs
|
||||
is the kingdom of heaven.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Francis Caracciolo, Confessor
|
||||
# (June 4). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-04.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/06-04.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
|
||||
# C5`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor's own Nocturn 3, not
|
||||
# transcribed here.
|
||||
id: st-francis-caracciolo
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Francíscus, dictus ántea Ascánius, ex nóbili família Carácciolo in óppido
|
||||
sanctæ Maríæ de Villa in Aprútio ortus, a primis annis exímio enítuit pietátis
|
||||
cultu. Adoléscens gráviter ægrótans státuit sese prorsus Dei proximíque
|
||||
mancipáre servítio. Neápolim proféctus, sacerdótio initiátus sacróque
|
||||
adscríptus sodalítio, contemplatióni lucrandísque animábus se totum devóvit, ac
|
||||
extrémo supplício damnátis hortatórem se præbuit assíduum. Cóntigit autem, ut
|
||||
epístolum álteri destinátum ei per errórem redderétur, quo a piíssimis viris
|
||||
Joánne Augustíno Adórno et Fabrício Carácciolo ad novi religiósi institúti
|
||||
fundatiónem vocabátur. Rei novitáte captus et divínæ voluntátis demirátus
|
||||
consília, álacri ánimo sese illis adjúnxit. Cónditis autem in Camaldulénsium
|
||||
erémo, quo secésserant, novi órdinis légibus, inde Romam simul profécti
|
||||
confirmatiónem a Xysto quinto impetrárunt, qui eósdem cléricos reguláres
|
||||
Minóres appellári vóluit, áddito ad tria consuéta áltero de non ambiéndis
|
||||
dignitátibus voto.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Solémni emíssa professióne, ob singulárem ejus in divum Francíscum
|
||||
Assisinátem cultum, Francísci nomen assúmpsit. Adórno biénnio post vita
|
||||
functo, ipse toti religióni, quamquam invítus, præfícitur; quo in múnere
|
||||
virtútum ómnium præclára præbuit exémpla. Institúti amplificándi studiosíssimus,
|
||||
id assíduis oratiónibus, lácrimis, et jugi córporis maceratióne eníxe a Deo
|
||||
postulábat. Quam ob rem tértio in Hispániam se cóntulit, peregríni hábitu
|
||||
indútus, victúmque ostiátim mendícans. In itínere aspérrima quæque perpéssus,
|
||||
Omnipoténtis auxílium mirum in modum expértus, navim quam conscénderat, ab
|
||||
imminénti naufrágio oratiónis præsídio servávit incólumem. Ut in regnis illis
|
||||
voti compos fíeret, plúrimum laborávit; sed, ejus sanctitátis fama prælucénte,
|
||||
amplissimáque catholicórum regum Philíppi secúndi et Philíppi tértii
|
||||
munificéntia, adversariórum conátibus singulári ánimi fortitúdine superátis,
|
||||
plura sui órdinis domicília fundávit: quod pari evéntu per Itáliam præstitit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Humilitáte ádeo excélluit, ut Romam véniens, in páuperum hospítio recéptus, se
|
||||
lepróso sociáverit, et ecclesiásticas dignitátes a Paulo quinto sibi oblátas
|
||||
constantíssime recusáverit. Illibátam perpétuo servávit virginitátem,
|
||||
effrontésque mulíeres, ejus castimóniæ insidiántes, Christo lucrifécit. Erga
|
||||
diviníssimum Eucharístiæ mystérium ardénti æstuans amóre, noctes pene íntegras
|
||||
in ejus adoratióne insómnes ducébat: quod pium exercítium, véluti sui órdinis
|
||||
tésseram, in eo perpétuo servándum constítuit. Deíparæ Vírginis cultum impénse
|
||||
fovit. In próximum exímia exársit caritáte. Prophetíæ dono et córdium
|
||||
scrutatióne ditátus fuit. Quadragésimum quartum ætátis suæ annum agens, dum in
|
||||
sacra Lauretána, æde in oratióne persísteret, sibi vitæ finem imminére cognóvit.
|
||||
Aprútium statim defléxit, et in óppido Agnóni apud alúmnos sancti Philíppi
|
||||
Nerii letháli febre corréptus, sacraméntis Ecclésiæ devotíssime suscéptis,
|
||||
prídie Nonas Júnii anni millésimi sexcentésimi octávi, in pervigílio festi
|
||||
Córporis Christi, placidíssime obdormívit in Dómino. Sacrum ejus corpus,
|
||||
Neápolim delátum, in ecclésia sanctæ Maríæ Majóris, ubi prima sui órdinis
|
||||
jécerat fundaménta, honorífice cónditum fuit.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
This Francis, whose worldly name was Ascanius, was one of the noble family of
|
||||
Caracciolo. He was born in the town of Santa Maria della Villa, in the Abruzzi.
|
||||
From his earliest years he showed great marks of godliness. When he was a young
|
||||
man he had a severe illness, and on his recovery determined to serve God only,
|
||||
and bade farewell to the world. He betook himself to Naples, where he was
|
||||
ordained Priest, enrolled himself in a devout guild, and gave himself up
|
||||
altogether to seek after God, and to gain souls for Him, in which work he
|
||||
showed himself an unwearied comforter to such prisoners as were condemned to
|
||||
death. It came to pass that those two great servants of God, John Augustine
|
||||
Adorno and Fabricius Caracciolo, wrote a letter to a certain person, wherein
|
||||
they exhorted him to found a new religious Institute. This letter came by a
|
||||
mistake to be delivered to Francis Caracciolo. The newness of the idea and the
|
||||
strange ways of God's Providence took possession of his mind, and he joyfully
|
||||
added himself to their company. They withdrew themselves to the wilderness of
|
||||
the Camaldolese hermits, and there concerted the Rule of the New Order. Thence
|
||||
they went together to Rome, and obtained the confirmation of their work from
|
||||
Sixtus V, who was pleased that they should be called The Lesser Clerks Regular,
|
||||
since they add to the three accustomed vows a fourth, binding themselves not to
|
||||
seek preferment in the Church.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Ascanius Caracciolo, moved by a special love and devotion he had to the holy
|
||||
Francis of Assisi, took, when he made his solemn profession, the name of
|
||||
Francis. After two years, John Adorno departed this life, and Francis, against
|
||||
his own will, was made Head of the Order. In this office he shone a burning
|
||||
light of grace. Devoted to the prosperity of the Institute, he earnestly sought
|
||||
the blessing of God upon it, by constant prayer, by tears, and by stern
|
||||
treatment of his own body. In this work, he thrice travelled into Spain in the
|
||||
guise of a pilgrim, and begging his bread from door to door. In these his
|
||||
journeys he suffered very great hardships, and was most wonderfully helped by
|
||||
the Almighty, especially one while when he was on shipboard and the ship nigh
|
||||
to perish, but for the work of his prayers. He toiled hard in those countries to
|
||||
attain his wishes, but through the widespread fame of his holy life, and the
|
||||
noble generosity of the Most Catholic Kings Philip II. and Philip III., he
|
||||
overcame with his brave perseverance the opposition of all that withstood him,
|
||||
and founded several houses of his Order. This he was able to do in Italy also.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
There was a great pattern of lowliness, so that when he came to Rome he betook
|
||||
himself to an almshouse, and chose a leper for his familiar friend. Paul V.
|
||||
offered him diverse honours in the Church, but he firmly refused them all. He
|
||||
preserved his purity unspotted, and when certain shameless women set themselves
|
||||
to attack his chastity, he took the occasion to gain over their souls for
|
||||
Christ. Toward God's great mystery of the Eucharist he was drawn with
|
||||
passionate tenderness, and would pass almost whole nights without sleep, simply
|
||||
adoring It. This godly custom he established in his Order, to be kept up
|
||||
therein for ever, the peculiar mark thereof. He was a great encourager of the
|
||||
worship of the Maiden Mother of God. He was hot with strong love for his
|
||||
neighbour. He was gifted with prophecy, and the discerning of spirits. In the
|
||||
forty-fourth year of his age he was continuing long in prayer in the Holy House
|
||||
of Loretto, when it was made known to him that the end of his earthly life was
|
||||
at hand. He straightway took his way to the Abruzzi, and was there seized with
|
||||
illness while he was with the disciples of St. Philip Neri, in the town of
|
||||
Agnone. He received with great devotion the Sacraments of the Church, and then,
|
||||
upon the 4th day of June, being the Eve of the Feast of the Body of Christ, in
|
||||
the year 1608, he very peacefully fell asleep in the Lord. His sacred body was
|
||||
carried to Naples, and there honourably buried in the Church of St. Mary the
|
||||
Greater, where he had laid the first foundations of his Order.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
|
||||
# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Margaret, Queen and Widow (June 10).
|
||||
# Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-10.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/06-10.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous vita. (Note: the source's own Lectio94 gives a different
|
||||
# death date, Nov. 16, than Lectio6's June 11 -- an inconsistency
|
||||
# already present in the reference engine's own text, not introduced
|
||||
# here; Lectio4-6 is the fuller, internally-consistent account and is
|
||||
# what's transcribed.) No Lectio7-9 in her own file (her `[Rule]` is
|
||||
# `vide C7a`) -- defers to the Common's own Nocturn 3, not transcribed
|
||||
# here.
|
||||
id: st-margaret-of-scotland
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Margarita, Scotórum regína, paterno Angliæ regum, materno Cæsárum sánguine
|
||||
claríssima, illustrior adhuc fuit christiana virtúte. Hæc in Hungária nata, ubi
|
||||
pater tunc témporis exsulabat, post exactam summa cum pietáte puerílem
|
||||
ætátem, una cum genitore, qui a sancto Eduárdo patruo, Anglórum rege, ad
|
||||
paterni regni fastigium vocabátur, in Angliam venit. Mox, alternante paréntum
|
||||
fortuna, ex Angliæ littore solvens, vi tempestátis expulsa, seu verius divinæ
|
||||
providéntiæ consílio deducta est in oram marítimam Scotiæ. Ibi cum ex matris
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imperio Malchólmo tertio Scotórum regi, egregiis ejus dótibus capto,
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nupsísset, sanctimóniæ ac pietátis opéribus, trigínta quibus regnávit annis,
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toti regno mirifice prófuit.
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Inter regales delicias corpus afflictatiónibus ac vigiliis mácerans, magnam
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noctis partem piis precatiónibus extrahebat. Præter alia jejunia, quæ
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idéntidem usurpabat, íntegros quadragínta dies ante Natalícia festa tanta cum
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severitáte jejunare consuevit, ut ne in gravíssimis quidem dolóribus
|
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intermiserit. Divino cultui addictíssima, templa pluria et cœnobia partim ex
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íntegro excitávit, partim resarcívit, et sacra supelléctili ac largo censu
|
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ditávit. Regem cónjugem ad meliórem frugem et ad simília suis exercitatiónibus
|
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ópera saluberrimo exemplo traduxit, liberosque omnes tam sancte et féliciter
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educávit, ut eórum plerique, quemádmodum et Agatha mater, et Christina soror,
|
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sanctíssimum vitæ genus ampléxi sint. Universi demum regni felicitáti
|
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cónsulens, a vitiis ómnibus, quæ furtim irrepserant, pópulos expurgávit,
|
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eisque mores christiana pietáte dignos restituit.
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Nihil tamen æque in illa mirábile fuit ac flagrantíssima caritas erga
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próximos, præsertim egénos, quorum numerosis grégibus non modo stipem áffatim
|
||||
suppeditare, verum étiam trecentis quotídie materna benignitate dapes
|
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præbére, flexis genibus in morem ancíllæ ministrare, regiis mánibus pedes
|
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ablúere, et pressis étiam ósculis úlcera fovére, solemne hábuit. His porro
|
||||
aliisque piis sumptibus non regias tantum vestes et preiosa monília distraxit,
|
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sed ipsum non semel exhausit ærárium. Tolerátis demum ad patiéntiæ miraculum
|
||||
acerbíssimis dolóribus, ánimam semestri corporis ægrotatióne purgatam Auctori
|
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suo, sextodecimo Kalendas Decembris, réddidit. Quo témporis momento fácies
|
||||
ejus, diuturni morbi macie ac pallore fœdata, insólita quadam venustáte
|
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reflóruit. Miris étiam post mortem prodigiis clara, et Clementis décimi
|
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auctoritate in Scotiæ patronam accepta, ubíque terrárum religiosíssime
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cólitur.
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en: >-
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Margaret, Queen of Scots, was most noble by birth, uniting in herself, from her
|
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father the blood of the Kings of England and from her mother the blood of the
|
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Caesars, but her greatest nobleness was in her brave Christian life. She was
|
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born in Hungary, where her father was then an exile, and had passed a
|
||||
religious childhood, when her uncle Edward, the holy King of England, recalled
|
||||
him to his own royal home, and she came to England with him. A few years
|
||||
after, upon the ruin of her family, she was escaping from England by sea, when
|
||||
the violence of the weather, or, to speak more truly, the Providence of God,
|
||||
caused that the ship should take refuge upon the coast of Scotland. There her
|
||||
extraordinary graces of mind and body so attracted King Malcolm III., that by
|
||||
the advice of his mother, he took her to wife, and of Scotland she deserved
|
||||
exceedingly well for the thirty years of her reign, by the holiness of her
|
||||
life and the abundance of her works of mercy.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In the midst of kingly dainties, she afflicted her body with hardships and
|
||||
watching, using to spend great part of the night in earnest prayer. Besides
|
||||
other fasts which she imposed upon herself, it was her custom to observe one of
|
||||
forty days before Christmas, concerning which fast she was so rigid, that she
|
||||
would not relax it even under sharp suffering. She took great delight in the
|
||||
public worship of God, and founded or renewed a great number of Churches and
|
||||
convents, which she enriched at great cost with sacred furniture. Her healthy
|
||||
example drew the King her husband to habits of sobriety, and to imitate her in
|
||||
her good works. To all her children she had the happiness of giving a godly
|
||||
education, and several of them, like her mother Agatha and her sister
|
||||
Christina, led notable holy lives. The happiness of the whole kingdom was the
|
||||
object for which she constantly strove, and she successfully rooted out all the
|
||||
vices which had stealthily crept in, and established among the people a
|
||||
standard of living worthy of Christians.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The most remarkable feature of her life was the tenderness of her charity
|
||||
toward her neighbour, especially the needy. Of these she would not only order
|
||||
whole flocks to be relieved, but was accustomed to give dinner to three hundred
|
||||
of them every day, treating them with the tenderness of a mother, and waiting
|
||||
upon them on her knees like a maidservant. She held it one of the privileges of
|
||||
her rank to wash their feet with her own Royal hands, and to dress their
|
||||
sores, which latter she would even kiss. To meet the expenses of her charities
|
||||
she sold not only her queenly raiment and her precious jewels, but more than
|
||||
once exhausted her funds entirely. Purified by grievous suffering, which she
|
||||
bore with marvelous patience during an illness of six months, she resigned her
|
||||
soul into the hands of Him Who had created it. At the moment of death, the
|
||||
bystanders saw her poor worn face, pale and disfigured by continual suffering,
|
||||
flush again with a beauty to which it had long been unused. After her death she
|
||||
became illustrious on account of great signs and wonders. With the approval of
|
||||
Clement X., she was chosen Patroness of Scotland, and her memory is held in
|
||||
profound reverence throughout the whole earth.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
|
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# Matins Nocturn 2 reading for St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor
|
||||
# (June 6). Sourced directly from web/www/horas/Latin/Sancti/06-06.txt,
|
||||
# English/Sancti/06-06.txt. Lectio4-6 combined into one reading, one
|
||||
# continuous vita. No Lectio7-9 in his own file (his `[Rule]` is `vide
|
||||
# C4`) -- defers to the Common of a Confessor Bishop's own Nocturn 3,
|
||||
# not transcribed here.
|
||||
id: st-norbert
|
||||
readings:
|
||||
- nocturn: 2
|
||||
isGospel: false
|
||||
text:
|
||||
la: >-
|
||||
Norbértus, nobilíssimis paréntibus natus, adoléscens liberálibus disciplínis
|
||||
erudítus, in ipsa póstea imperatóris aula, spretis mundi illécebris,
|
||||
ecclesiásticæ milítiæ adscríbi vóluit. Sacris initiátus, rejéctis móllibus ac
|
||||
spléndidis véstibus, pellícea melóte indútus, prædicatióni verbi Dei se totum
|
||||
dedit. Abdicátis ecclesiásticis provéntibus satis amplis, et património in
|
||||
páuperes erogáto, semel in die sub vésperam solo cibo quadragesimáli utens,
|
||||
nudísque pédibus et lácera veste sub brumáli rigóre incédens, miræ
|
||||
austeritátis vitam est aggréssus. Potens ígitur ópere et sermóne, innúmeros
|
||||
hæréticos ad fidem, peccatóres ad pœniténtiam, dissidéntes ad pacem et
|
||||
concórdiam revocávit.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Cum Laudúni esset, ab epíscopo rogátus ne a sua diœcési discéderet, desértum
|
||||
in ea locum, qui Præmonstrátus dicebátur, sibi delégit; ibíque, trédecim
|
||||
sóciis aggregátis, Præmonstraténsem órdinem instítuit, divínitus accépta per
|
||||
visum régula a sancto Augustíno. Cum vero ejus fama sanctitátis in dies magis
|
||||
augerétur, ac plúrimi ad eum quotídie discípuli convenírent, idem ordo ab
|
||||
Honório secúndo aliísque summis Pontifícibus confirmátus, ac plúribus ab eo
|
||||
monastériis ædificátis, mirífice propagátus est.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Antvérpiam accersítus, in ea urbe Tanchelíni nefáriam hæresim profligávit.
|
||||
Prophético spíritu et miráculis cláruit. Archiepíscopus tandem (licet
|
||||
relúctans) Magdeburgénsis creátus, ecclesiásticam disciplínam, præsértim
|
||||
cælibátum, constánter propugnávit. Rhemis in concílio Innocéntium secúndum
|
||||
egrégie adjúvit, et Romam cum áliis epíscopis proféctus, schisma Petri Leónis
|
||||
compréssit. Postrémo vir Dei, méritis et Spíritu Sancto plenus, Magdebúrgi
|
||||
obdormívit in Dómino, anno salútis millésimo centésimo trigésimo quarto, die
|
||||
sexta Júnii.
|
||||
en: >-
|
||||
Norbert, born in the year 1080 of parents of the highest rank, thoroughly
|
||||
educated in his youth in worldly knowledge, and a member of the Imperial
|
||||
court, turned his back upon the glory of the world, and chose rather to enlist
|
||||
himself as a soldier of the Church. Being ordained Priest, he laid aside all
|
||||
soft and showy raiment, clad himself in a coat of skins, and made the
|
||||
preaching of the Word of God the one object of his life. He had the right to
|
||||
rich revenues of the Church but these he renounced, and to an ample fortune
|
||||
from his father; but this he gave to the poor. He ate only once a day, and that
|
||||
in the evening, and then his meal was of the fare of Lent. His life was one of
|
||||
singular hardness, and he was used even in the depth of winter to go out with
|
||||
bare feet and ragged garments. Hence came that mighty power of his words and
|
||||
deeds, whereby he was enabled to turn countless heretics to the true faith,
|
||||
sinners to repentance, and enemies to peace and brotherly love.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Being one while at Laon, the Bishop besought him not to leave his diocese, and
|
||||
he therefore made choice of a wilderness at the place called Prémontré,
|
||||
whither he withdrew himself with thirteen disciples, and thus founded the
|
||||
Order of the Praemonstratensian Canons, whereof he, by the will of God,
|
||||
received the Rule, in a vision, from St. Augustine. When, however, the fame of
|
||||
his holy life became every day more and more noised abroad, and great numbers
|
||||
sought to become his disciples, and the Order had been approved by Honorius
|
||||
II, and other Popes, many more monasteries were built by him, and the
|
||||
Institute wonderfully extended.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Being called to Antwerpen, he there gave the death-blow to the shameful heresy
|
||||
of Tanchelm. He was remarkable for the spirit of prophecy and for the gift of
|
||||
miracles. He was created (albeit he would rather not have had it so)
|
||||
Archbishop of Magdeburg, and as such he was a strong upholder of the discipline
|
||||
of the Church, especially contending against the marriage of the clergy. At a
|
||||
Council held at Reims he was a great help to Innocent II, and went with some
|
||||
Other Bishops to Rome, where they stamped out the schism of Peter Leoni. It was
|
||||
at last at Magdeburg that this man of God, full of good works and of the Holy
|
||||
Ghost, fell asleep in the Lord, on the 6th day of June, in the year of
|
||||
salvation 1134.
|
||||
status: { la: verified, en: verified }
|
||||
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